On 6 Jan 1999, Lars Balker Rasmussen wrote:
> "I. Dwayne Koonce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > This is untrue. IBM's download page for Postfix (which appears to be the
> > only place it's available) insists that it is covered by IBM's rather ugly
> > "Alphaworks" license, which allows only "personal, non-commercial, and
> > lawful end use", and no redistribution of any kind. Additionally, you are
> > required to destroy all copies after 90 days.
>
> No such requirement if you download from http://www.postfix.org.
You couldn't, on the first day it was released, which was when I checked.
This requirement is also no apparently longer on IBM's graphical download
page, but lingers mistakenly on their text-only download page, which is
where I checked to confirm it before I posted. (Wietse Venema corrected
me on this off-list. We can probably stop CC'ing him.)
> Hmm, this is from the Postfix license:
>
[excerpts deleted]
Yes, I stand corrected. I haven't read through the whole license yet, but
no doubt it's not as objectionable as the AlphaWorks license to which
IBM's web page initially (mis)directed people.
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