Walter, Thank you for your comments (everybody else too). Sorry for not following up sooner; please see question below.
On 9/27/06, Walter Landry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ryan Finnie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asked for help with: > > (c) You must make Source Code of all Your Deployed Modifications > > publicly available under the terms of this License, including the > > license grants set forth in Section 3 below, for as long as you Deploy > > the Covered Code or twelve (12) months from the date of initial > > Deployment, whichever is longer. You should preferably distribute the > > Source Code of Your Deployed Modifications electronically (e.g. > > download from a web site); and > > This looks like forced *public* availability and a 12-month retainer, > which I think is both a significant cost (so not free redistribution) > and maybe a practical problem. If you need to make any modifications, then with this clause, I don't think that it can even be uploaded to non-free. Debian does not insure that every version ever distributed will be available for 12 months.
How does this differ for the GPL's section 3(b) three-year clause? At this point, the feeling seems to be that software that uses this license cannot even be uploaded to non-free. If that is the case, I will make an effort to contact LinuxMagic and ask them if they can re-license magic-smtpd under the GPL (it looks like some of their other software is GPL-licensed), and/or ask them to contact debian-legal to discuss what can be done to make it possible to include magic-smtpd with Debian. Again, thanks for the input. Ryan Finnie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
