Re: License question

2014-04-21 Thread Wietse Venema
LuKreme: > > "Some commonly asked questions about third-party products: > > > > Why isn't Postfix included? > > The license is not free, and thus can not be considered." > > > > Not free? > > That statement is a lie based on a religious position and has > nothing at all to do with any facts. Wha

Re: License question

2014-04-20 Thread LuKreme
On 20 Apr 2014, at 17:43 , Rick Zeman wrote: > 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 th

Re: License question

2014-04-20 Thread li...@rhsoft.net
Am 21.04.2014 02:05, schrieb Rick Zeman: >> "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 > > Yeah, I've seen the Postfix license text more time than I can count > (in

Re: License question

2014-04-20 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 07:43:35PM -0400, Rick Zeman wrote: > "Some commonly asked questions about third-party products: > > Why isn't Postfix included? > The license is not free, and thus can not be considered." > > Not free? Not free enough for Theo. More detailed answers in archives of Open

Re: License question

2014-04-20 Thread Rick Zeman
On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 7:54 PM, li...@rhsoft.net wrote: > > > 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 a

Re: License question

2014-04-20 Thread li...@rhsoft.net
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

Re: License question

2014-03-03 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 2/28/2014 5:16 AM, Alessandro Vesely wrote: > On Thu 27/Feb/2014 15:00:31 +0100 Wietse Venema wrote: ... >> Besides USING Postfix source code, there are other options: >> >> - Write a tool that TRANSFORMS fqrdns.pcre.txt so that it can be >> used by a different mail system. That would immediat

Re: License question

2014-03-03 Thread Alessandro Vesely
On Fri 28/Feb/2014 13:20:10 +0100 Wietse Venema wrote: > Alessandro Vesely: > >> The true question, beyond legalese, is if you'd welcome such porting >> rather than considering it an unintended use of your publishing the >> sources. > > The license says what you can do, regardless of my opinion

Re: License question

2014-02-28 Thread Wietse Venema
Alessandro Vesely: > Hi Wietse, > > On Thu 27/Feb/2014 15:00:31 +0100 Wietse Venema wrote: > > > > Second, I am not a legal expert, but by my reading the IPL (IBM > > public license) permits making changes and distributing the resulting > > program as long as one complies with the IPL. I will no

Re: License question

2014-02-28 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Hi Wietse, On Thu 27/Feb/2014 15:00:31 +0100 Wietse Venema wrote: > > Second, I am not a legal expert, but by my reading the IPL (IBM > public license) permits making changes and distributing the resulting > program as long as one complies with the IPL. I will not comment > on combining code wit

Re: License question

2014-02-27 Thread Wietse Venema
Alessandro Vesely: > Hi, > I found some interesting filtering recipes maintained in Postfix > format, such as http://www.hardwarefreak.com/fqrdns.pcre.txt > > Since I'm not running Postfix, I think I need to roll my own filter in > order to run those recipes. At a first glance, smtpd_check.c and