Colin Watson wrote: > >RMS asked about other free-software IMAP servers. Cyrus isn't one, but > >acording to one of their lawyers... their intents match the GNU GPL.... > > I don't see how. The GPL seeks to restrict proprietary use to keep the > software free, while, according to the lawyer you quote, the Cyrus > licence seeks to restrict commercial use to let them make more money. > The intents aren't really that similar.
They don't want to limit commercial _use_, they want to limit commercially sold derived products (as I undertand the message quoted). So GPL for everybody, and those that want to make derived closed-sourced products can seek another licensing agreement. Peter
