lftp commercial support?

[Jonathan G. Lampe]

Hello Alexander,

My company recently completed what we believe is the first port of lftp to the Unix side of IBM's OS/390 mainframe for a nearby insurance company. It was not easy, but after the port we feel we are familiar enough with lftp to consider offering select companies, particularly those in North America and Europe, commercial support of the lftp package.

Obviously my first question has to do with licensing. It appears that lftp is GNU licensed, which allows people to sell commercial support of open source software as long as they continue to release their modifications to the public as well. I would first like to confirm that lftp is indeed GNU licensed.

Second, I wonder what commercial arrangements you might like to make between yourself and our company. Although the GNU license would seem to prohibit you from selling us any exclusive rights to lftp or even copies of the software itself, we would likely be interested in employing your services as a paid consultant and/or to put mention of our company as a commercial supporter of your product on your web site.

Finally, I should ask what I can do to make the OS/390 version of lftp public and thus carry out our open source duties under the GNU license.

Thank you again for writing lftp!

Regards,
- Jonathan Lampe
- MOVEit Product Manager
- Standard Networks, Inc.
- 608.227.6100 (US)
- [EMAIL PROTECTED]