Date: Mon, 01 Jun 1998 04:36:18 +0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> To: Joseph Stein <joes@shasta.wstein.com> Cc: dom@myrddin.demon.co.uk, current@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail 8.9 Message-ID: <199805312036.EAA04648@spinner.netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 31 May 1998 10:47:21 MST." <199805311747.KAA19941@shasta.wstein.com>
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Joseph Stein wrote: > Peter Wemm allegedly wrote: > > Argh, I take that back, I shouldn't have uttered such crap, especially when > > I had a reply in my mailbox that I had not yet seen. (And even if it > > wasn't, this still wasn't appropriate). My big mouth is really going to > > get me in trouble sooner or later. > > > So what was the final verdict? Any clarifications in the works, or is > everyone that wants to use 8.9.0 on their own? (no problem for me, I'm > already upgraded, but just a general question.) Yes, they have no interest with anything else other than sendmail itself. The intent is that one could sell a binary-only freebsd, as long as you either:- 1) removed sendmail 2) included sendmail source 3) provide sendmail source if asked 4) are not selling sendmail but are providing it with the system for free with no restrictions. ie: the end user could take the sendmail binaries and copy/distribute/whatever even though your commercial system license may prevent or restrict copying of everything else. In other words, it shouldn't be a problem in FreeBSD, unless somebody is trying to sell sendmail *itself* along with freebsd. An example of somebody who would need a seperate license would be somebody who is selling a mail handling system with extensive proprietary sendmail mods where the licensing requires the customer buy a copy per machine. Somebody in that situation would likely be interested in Sendmail Pro anyway. Clarifications to the license are theoretically under way but have to be approved by the lawyers first. > joe > -- > Joseph Stein Oregon FirePage http://www.ofp.org > Beaverton, Oregon (*) [OFP4/PDX] > (503) 301-1575 -or- joes@pager.wstein.com <pgr> joes@wstein.com <e-mail> > * Oregon, n.: Eighty billion gallons of water with no place to go on Saturday > Cheers, -Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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