Re: [Mailman-Users] Cannot set digest mode via URL

Todd Zullinger writes: > Agreed. I think the main alternative is using trademarks, like > Mozilla does. That's not very popular with the very folks that do > support open source code well though. Sure, but that still doesn't help with the problem at hand. AFAIK we haven't registered any tra

Re: [Mailman-Users] Cannot set digest mode via URL

On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Brad Knowles wrote: > > Oh, and for me, it has nothing to do with sullying our reputation. It has > much more to do with crippling our ability to support our customers, because > experience has taught us that many of these vendors want to ship code > without provi

Re: [Mailman-Users] Cannot set digest mode via URL

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Under the GPL, you don't have any grounds for anything except the > kind of campaign that might open you up to a libel suit as long as > they're distributing source with the binary versions. The GPL > doesn't require that version numbers be munged by downstream, and I

Re: [Mailman-Users] Cannot set digest mode via URL

Brad Knowles writes: > If there's more to it than that, then I would definitely be > inclined to be much tougher in my response. Under the GPL, you don't have any grounds for anything except the kind of campaign that might open you up to a libel suit as long as they're distributing source with

Re: [Mailman-Users] Cannot set digest mode via URL

On Aug 29, 2010, at 9:59 AM, Todd Zullinger wrote: > I'm not arguing that if a distributor patches Mailman and changes core > behavior to the point that it causes confusion for users and > potentially sullies Mailman's reputation that it's fine and should be > left alone. Just trying to see what

Re: [Mailman-Users] Cannot set digest mode via URL

On Aug 29, 2010, at 9:59 AM, Todd Zullinger wrote: > I'm not arguing that if a distributor patches Mailman and changes core > behavior to the point that it causes confusion for users and > potentially sullies Mailman's reputation that it's fine and should be > left alone. Just trying to see what

Re: [Mailman-Users] Cannot set digest mode via URL

Brad Knowles wrote: > If they are now shipping something and calling it 2.1.13 and it's > not exactly the same code that we provide from > , then I think it's time we had > the PSF and/or FSF lawyers give them a call -- and speaking as a > member of the Mailman Ca