Am 21.04.2014 01:43, schrieb Rick Zeman:
> First let me say that I'm NOT trying to start any sort of flame war
> here, and I tried to google to find out the answer before asking.
> That being said, I just installed OpenBSD in a VM and ran into this:
>
> "Some commonly asked questions about third-party products:
>
> Why isn't Postfix included?
> The license is not free, and thus can not be considered."
usually you should download the tarball of any software
and seek for a document called "LICENSE" which in case
of postfix starts with:
>> IBM PUBLIC LICENSE VERSION 1.0 - SECURE MAILER
>>
>> THE ACCOMPANYING PROGRAM IS PROVIDED UNDER THE TERMS OF THIS IBM PUBLIC
>> LICENSE ("AGREEMENT"). ANY USE, REPRODUCTION OR DISTRIBUTION OF THE
>> PROGRAM CONSTITUTES RECIPIENT'S ACCEPTANCE OF THIS AGREEMENT.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postfix_%28software%29
Postfix is released under the IBM Public License 1.0 which is a free software
licence.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Public_License
This license has also been criticised because of provisions in section 4
which require commercial distributors of code covered by this license to
indemnify all "upstream" originators for legal costs relating to lawsuits
brought about of users of the software. It has been argued that this exposes
small distributors (e.g. Linux distributions that happen to sell CDs) to
unbounded
legal costs, possibly arising from vexatious claims
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"free" needs a context, the GPL is free, but you are not
free to use GPL licesed code, change it, include it in
a commercial product and make your product closed source
