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Re: mysql GPL/postfix IPL incompatibility
From: Wietse Venema <wietse_at_nospam>Date: Mon Feb 28 2011 - 22:43:12 GMT
To: Postfix users <postfix-users@postfix.org>
Quanah Gibson-Mount:
> >> Wieste, will postfix be moving to the CPL, or will it be retaining the
> >> IPL?
> >
> > The IPL is the second license under which Postfix was released.
> > With IPL and CPL being similar in spirit (and equally objectionable
> > for OpenBSD, according to people I talked to) I need to hear good
> > arguments before I would enter further discussion with IBM lawyers.
>
> Hi Wieste,
Please, spell my name correctly. Thank you.
> I see that the CPL has in fact been replaced with the EPL. Do the BSD
> folks find it as objectionable as well? If not, then if you do look into
> re-licensing postfix, perhaps the EPL would be a better solution.
I don't run to the IP laywers for each iteration of the IBM license
agreement, nor do I run to the OpenBSD people to ask for their opinion.
I would need to hear really good reasons before I change this
position. I don't care if one flavor of "you must release source
code" is better than another flavor. If I had the choice it then
would be the same BSD licence that I slapped on my older tools.
Wietse