Re: Please Review: Official IBM Public License

1999-06-28 Thread Henning Makholm
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kragen Sitaker) writes: So simply because the copyright on a piece of software is licensed under the IPL does not mean that the patents in it are licensed in DFSG-compliant ways; it seems to me that the patents could be licensed (by IBM) in ways that violate section 3 of

[wietse@porcupine.org: Please review: Official IBM Public License]

1999-06-28 Thread Marco d'Itri
[Please Cc me, I'm not subscribed.] This is the new Postfix license. Is it GPL-compatible? -- ciao, Marco ---BeginMessage--- And here it is. Reactions are welcome, before we apply this license to Postfix/Secure Mailer. Wietse

Re: Please Review: Official IBM Public License

1999-06-28 Thread Raul Miller
Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my reading, the DFSG does not concern itself with hypothetical patent licenses. No declaration from a free software author can guarantee that there'll never be patent problems, so if the DFSG were to require such guarantee Debian would suddenly fit

Re: [wietse@porcupine.org: Please review: Official IBM Public License]

1999-06-28 Thread Raul Miller
Marco d'Itri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Please Cc me, I'm not subscribed.] This is the new Postfix license. Is it GPL-compatible? I don't think so. A Contributor may choose to distribute the Program in object code form under its own license agreement, provided that: a) it complies