Re: [AMaViS-user] Amavisd License Clarification

Even gpl3 has nothing to do with software as a service, so I was wrong.

On 7/5/07, Riaan Kok <riaankok@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 05/07/07, Michael Katz <mknews@messagepartners.com> wrote:
> > I was looking at the recent amavisd-new presentation by the author and
> > slide four says that amavisd-new is GPL. If it is GPL that would bring
> > many many installations out of license compliance, especially in
> > commercial products and email filtering services, that have heavily
> > customized amavisd-new without submitting their changes to the
> > community. I thought that it had a BSD license which allows unlimited
> > changes without change submissions, rather than GPL which requires that
> > changes be submitted back to the community and forbids use in commercial
> > products that don't supply all source code.
> >
> > Mike Katz
> > http://messagepartners.com
> >
>
> Mike,
>
> IANAL, but I don't think that's what the GPL means. I think it means
> that IF a company distributes a product containing modified GPL
> components, they are required to provide the source to those modified
> components upon request (and publicly state their willingness to do
> so), and only by not doing either would be violating the GPL. It does
> not mean that you've got to submit all your modifications "back to the
> community", because
> (a) the poor community would be swamped with diffs by people who
> modify not for any other purpose but to get amavisd-new to fit a mold
> they can't otherwise change.
> (b) this FAQ says so:
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq....cePostedPublic
>
> So, if I'm reading this right, only a company selling an email
> filtering appliance containing a modified copy of amavisd-new need
> worry.
>
> regards,
> Riaan
>
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