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Re: mailutils, and the licencing web


From: Sergey Poznyakoff
Subject: Re: mailutils, and the licencing web
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 12:38:32 +0300

> So, my question:
> 
> - can sieve, the library or the executables, be distributed with mailutils?
[...]
> - can mail.local be distributed with the sieve library, when part of that
>   library is CMU licenced?

I believe so. CMU license is compatible with GPL, although it is maybe
a little vague.

> As for mu_arp_parse(), it's GPLed, so any code that calls it turns into
> GPL as well, correct? So, if somebody has an app that either can't, or
> they don't want, be GPLed, they cannot use it as a configuration mechanism,
> they have to use some other kind of config mechanism. Do I understand
> correctly?

Yes, that's correct. If you think it is a problem, I have no objections to
passing it under LGPL. However, it uses argcv.c, which in turn is
GPL-ed.

Regards,
Sergey



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