[hypermail] Re: license in archive/

From: Peter C. McCluskey <pcm_at_rahul.net_at_hypermail-project.org>
Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2002 14:19:21 -0700 (PDT)
Message-Id: <20020803211921.8804D7E91_at_yellow.rahul.net>

 bernhard_at_intevation.de (Bernhard Reiter) writes:
>This license statement forbits commercial use and thus is a
>proprietory software license incompatible with the GNU GPL.
>It does not seems to be a derivate work of hypermail, thus the
>license seems to be possible. However it not being Free Software
>there are three options:=20
> - Ask Kent Landfield to change the license
> - Remove it from the hypermail tarball=20
> - Reimplement it as Free Software.

 It would be nice if Kent changed the license to GPL, but I don't want to require that all programs distributed in the tarball be GPL'd. I'm inclined to just change the README to indicate that the main program is GPL'd, but some programs in the archive and contrib directories have different licenses. Why would we need to do more than that?

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