LuKreme a écrit : > On 28 May 2009, at 03:56, Ralf Hildebrandt <ralf.hildebra...@charite.de> > wrote: > >> Turns out Wietse was wrong: >> http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/334866/fffe7b1a0716c0e4/ > > Would it be approriate to ask what the issues are with postfix's > license? I hate to admit it, but I've never read it. > >
license issues are not simple if you are a vendor/reseller or if you distribute an OS that is used by vendors/resellers. for end-users, it doesn't matter much whether the software is gpl, bsdl, apache, artistic, .. (well, the may like this or that, but they can freely use either). but if you distribute a system that will be used by commercial vendors, things get different. and they are complex because it's not about your interpretation of the license, but about possible interpretations by the vendors/resellers/customers. the OpenBSD guys take this a bit too "aggressively". on the other hand, this approach has resulted in good software (the so-called OpenBSD pf is a good example, although the story was "special").
