On Mon, 12 Apr 2021 00:26:48 -0400 Richard wrote: > That sounds bad, but it is vague. Could you tell me more about these > restrictions? Have you studied what they say?
i have changed he subject, to reflect that is discussion is not about SaaSS - we had long discussion of this this week - there are ample details on the parabola bug tracker https://labs.parabola.nu/issues/3010 for brevity, i believe that i can condense jean's main concern according to my understanding of the GPL, if the authors of that software had the right to release it under the GPL, and they did in fact release it under the GPL, then they have in fact, granted to the entire world, explicit and irrevocable permission to modify and re-distribute the implementation, for any purpose - therefore, any proprietary claims which they may otherwise have had on the protocol/API, would be effectively forfeited, WRT anyone who has a copy of that implementation jean is concerned that the author could still make some other proprietary claim against people who make derivative implementations of the client, or new, incompatible servers none of us are lawyers of course, and several FSDG distros distribute these clients; so this list is the appropriate forum to discuss it - in fact, it was discussed on this list in 2018 https://lists.parabola.nu/pipermail/assist/2018-July/001141.html there was a larger issue regarding this program and others like it, which was not resolved - seeing as we are discussing it again, i will start a separate thread about it
