OK, thanks for that, I think ....
As I read it, I am installing the software on a machine and selling *it* as
a service, but that's OK as long as I include the original source code on
the hard drive of the machine (the physical medium), and any patches applied
(ie qmail scanner, etc). Since the customer wants no advertising on the web
mail interface, I have removed all copyright notices by editing the html
template files. All copyright notices embedded in the html code (as
comments) and source code remain intact.
Is this OK? I'm not a C programmer, so I'm not about to hack any code
anyway.
Andrew.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, 26 June 2001 19:32
> To: Ken Jones
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Licencing
>
>
> Ken Jones wrote:
> >
> > Andrew Gray wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi All,
> > > I have to provide a tender for a web interface email
> box. I would like to
> > > use qmail and sqwebmail, but need to know that I am not violating any
> > > licencing by doing so.
> > > Note that I am looking to provide a complete web
> based email solution here
> > > including hardware and not selling the software specifically
> as such. Is
> > > there a concise licence agreement I can quote in the tender doc for
> > > sqwebmail? There doesnt appear to be one for qmail other than "dont
> > > distribute binaries" ....
> >
> > Read the qmail and sqwebmail licenses.
> >
> > SqWebmail is licenced under the GPL
> > http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/gpl-faq.html
> > Is a nice FAQ.
> >
> > Welcome to the world of the GPL
> >
> > Ken Jones
>
> Qmail is not GPL. Dan has a very restrictive license regarding binary
> distribution and any modifications. You specifically cannot redistribute
> qmail if you have patched it or installed it in a non-standard location
> on the hard disk. You had better check out
> http://cr.yp.to/qmail/dist.html .
>
> Mike
>
