On Di, 2010-03-16 at 21:33 +0100, Stefan Schulze Frielinghaus wrote: > On Di, 2010-03-16 at 16:05 -0400, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: > > On 03/16/2010 03:40 PM, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > [...] > > > Looking at the license at that URL, I see there's also the question of > > > the involvement of the sendmail license which has some rather odd GPL > > > compatibility issues. > > > > Yeah... but since the copyright holder is Sendmail, Inc on those files, > > we can assume that the Sendmail License is GPL compatible here (I'm also > > going to assume that any changes made by the The OpenDKIM Project to > > files originally under the Sendmail License are done under the BSD with > > advertising license). > > That's true. OpenDKIM is a fork of a project called dkim-milter which is > orphaned at the moment and was developed by employees of Sendmail Inc. > and therefore shouldn't be a license problem. Only the changes made to > the forked project are licensed as BSD-with-advertisement. > > > If I were you, I would ask the OpenDKIM project if they would be willing > > to drop the advertising clause. > > I already sent an email to the project maintainer and hope to hear from > him soon. After some discussion on their mailinglist they decided to drop the 4th-clause. I'm happy to see this decision and would like to thank especially Tom since he could bring up some real good arguments against the 4th-clause and helped out wherever he could! Regards, Stefan _______________________________________________ legal mailing list legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/legal
