Re: [vchkpw] Rules on linking against the vpopmail libraries

2007-06-25 Thread Bert JW Regeer
On Jun 24, 2007, at 7:44 PM, Tom Collins wrote: On Jun 24, 2007, at 2:35 PM, Rick Widmer wrote: Selling a commercial product that includes vpopmail code is exactly what the GPL license is designed to prevent. Why should you get to sell our labor without paying us? What if QmailAdmin had

Re: [vchkpw] Rules on linking against the vpopmail libraries

2007-06-25 Thread Rick Widmer
Tom Collins wrote: On Jun 24, 2007, at 2:35 PM, Rick Widmer wrote: Selling a commercial product that includes vpopmail code is exactly what the GPL license is designed to prevent. Why should you get to sell our labor without paying us? What if QmailAdmin had been written as a proprietary,

Re: [vchkpw] Rules on linking against the vpopmail libraries

2007-06-25 Thread Tom Collins
On Jun 25, 2007, at 1:58 AM, Rick Widmer wrote: I think it would because QmailAdmin includes vpopmail code at the linker level which requires it to be under the GPL license too. Late linking with .so files is acceptable, because the product does not include GPL code, and only links to an

[vchkpw] Rules on linking against the vpopmail libraries

2007-06-24 Thread Bert JW Regeer
Hi, I am a small software engineer who is currently doing contract work for a company, and I have a question about what license the vpopmail library is under (vpopmail.a and friends). I am developing commercial software for them that would link against the library, and now I have read

Re: [vchkpw] Rules on linking against the vpopmail libraries

2007-06-24 Thread Rick Widmer
Bert JW Regeer wrote: Hi, I am a small software engineer who is currently doing contract work for a company, and I have a question about what license the vpopmail library is under (vpopmail.a and friends). I believe almost every file within the project indicates that it is licensed

Re: [vchkpw] Rules on linking against the vpopmail libraries

2007-06-24 Thread Tom Collins
On Jun 24, 2007, at 2:35 PM, Rick Widmer wrote: Selling a commercial product that includes vpopmail code is exactly what the GPL license is designed to prevent. Why should you get to sell our labor without paying us? What if QmailAdmin had been written as a proprietary, commercial app?