Again, apologies to all for the disruption.  Thanks for your patience.

Jim

On Sun, Mar 30, 2025 at 4:26 AM Stephen J. Turnbull <
turnb...@sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> wrote:

> Bill Cole writes:
>
>  > Mailman v2.2.0 is an apparently proprietary product from
>  > cPanel.
>
> Mailman v2 is under the GNU GPL v2, so please use "commercial" rather
> than "proprietary".
>
> The GPL does not require publication of your sources, only source
> distribution under the GPL to your users, who get all the rights they
> need for free software.  I am quite sure cPanel respects the terms of
> the license, and I always have respected them for that.  It is a legal
> business decision to distribute source *only* to your users.  We can
> disagree with that decision on various grounds, of course, but it has
> no effect on the freedom or legitimacy of that version of Mailman.
>
> As you correctly point out, it does restrict the availability of
> support for cPanel Mailman 2.2 users to the vendor currently.  The GNU
> Mailman Project has no interest in providing it now or in the future.
>
> Regards,
> Steve
>
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