pine RPM and IPv6 for imapd
Michael Dickson
mike.dickson at earthlink.net
Wed Jan 7 01:12:08 UTC 2004
On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 18:57, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Antonio Querubin writes:
>
> > Ok, for discussion sake here's the remainder of the copyright. If anybody
> > spots any red flags in there perhaps they could point it out.
>
> [ … ]
>
> > (5) the University of Washington may make modifications to the
> > Distribution that are substantially similar to modified versions of
> > the Distribution, and may make, use, sell, copy, distribute, publicly
> > display, and perform such modifications, including making such
> > modifications available under this or other licenses, without
> > obligation or restriction;
>
> That's the red flag right there. This clause makes UW-IMAP's license
> incompatible with the GPL.
So what. There are other valid opensource licenses. This is actually
mostly a mute point since redhat controls the distribution and they
determine what they are comfortable including from a licensing
perspective.
> The University of Washington reserves the right to acquire any changes
> you've made to their software, and use it for their own purposes and release
> it under other licenses.
This doesn't say that. It simply says that if they like something a
distributor did they can copy the functionality and resdistribute it.
It doesn't imply they own local changes at all. In fact other points in
the license specifically address that.
> This has more in common with Microsoft's Shared Source license, rather than
> any OSI-approved license. The only substantive difference is that you do
> not have to pay $100,000 to the University of Washington in order to obtain
> the source code.
IMHO this is nothing like the M$ SSL. Its a pretty open, permissive
license. Unfortunately redhat apparently doesn't agree so if I want
pine I'll have to get it and install it myself. No biggie. But lets
not paint the picture to make the University of Washington bad guys. I
don't see them that way.
Mike
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