Jorge Bastos wrote: > Hi, > Does @NFG intend to change DBmail someday in the future to a comercial > software?
The short answer is: no. The long answer is: never! DBmail is and always will be GPL licensed. First of all, we believe in free software and don't see any viability in a closed source approach to infrastructural software at all. Second, major portions of the code base are copyrighted by IC&S and Aaron. NFG cannot change the license even if we wanted to, which we don't. It's very important to us that there be no misconceptions about our intentions. The certainty that future dbmail releases will always be GPL licensed is crucial for the credibility and viability of this project. Any suggestion of the possibility of a commercial fork would quickly destroy the user base, methinks. We're rather thinking along traditional open source business model lines. Support services. Consultancy spinoff. And we're using dbmail internally to power some really nice new hosting services launching soonly. Watch this space :-) :*CU# -- *** Guido A.J. Stevens *** mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** *** Net Facilities Group *** tel: +31.43.3618933 *** *** Postbus 1143 *** fax: +31.43.3561655 *** *** 6201 BC Maastricht *** http://www.nfg.nl *** Watching the server logs while clients were being audited by certain large firms has convinced me that there's almost no value in such certifications. [ Chris Adams, http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/21.79.html#subj5.1 ]
