Re: [Mailman-Developers] Can i use the Bouncer API a Programm wich is not GPL?

2010-11-06 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Marc Egli writes: > Ok but i can add a script to Mailman which accepts a path to a mail > file, then reads that file and gives a csv list back. Yes, I would think so. The FSF likes to bluster that programs running in separate processes that interact with each other via standard interprocess ch

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Can i use the Bouncer API a Programm wich is not GPL?

2010-11-05 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Nov 05, 2010, at 06:36 PM, Marc Egli wrote: >Ok but i can add a script to Mailman which accepts a path to a mail file, >then reads that file and gives a csv list back. In my application i can exec >this script. The script is under GPL and could bee added to Mailman if anyone >else finds it usef

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Can i use the Bouncer API a Programm wich is not GPL?

2010-11-05 Thread Marc Egli
Am 05.11.2010 um 17:55 schrieb Stephen J. Turnbull: > The plugin really needs to be designed as a separate program with a > single entry point and enumerated options (at most, with simple data > types like strings and integers as arguments) to qualify as borderline > here. However, the Bouncer API

[Mailman-Developers] Can i use the Bouncer API a Programm wich is not GPL?

2010-11-05 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Marc Egli writes: > Now my question is: can i release my application under a less > restrictive license like the bsd license? Probably not. > According to the gpl-faq this is a borderline case because i only > invoke a function and wait for the response. > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-fa

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Can i use the Bouncer API a Programm wich is not GPL?

2010-11-05 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Nov 05, 2010, at 04:01 PM, Marc Egli wrote: >We are building a newsletter application for the django framework. For bounce >detection we want to use the Mailman bouncerAPI because reimplementing would >be a bad idea. Now my question is: can i release my application under a less >restrictive lic

[Mailman-Developers] Can i use the Bouncer API a Programm wich is not GPL?

2010-11-05 Thread Marc Egli
We are building a newsletter application for the django framework. For bounce detection we want to use the Mailman bouncerAPI because reimplementing would be a bad idea. Now my question is: can i release my application under a less restrictive license like the bsd license? I don't distribute Mai