On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 08:59:36AM -0700, Greg A wrote: > The way I read the license was that you can not sell SA software. > You can only charge for duplication fees, installation or > maintenance but not for the software or customized versions derived > from it. I could be wrong, I am not a lawyer... > The way some on the list have responded would suppose that anyone > can copy SpamAssassin, modify it or integrate it, change the name of > it and then resell it for thousands. (ie, Mailshield). This does not > make sense to me. (Here is the link again.)
You need to re-read the license again. SpamAssassin has a dual GPL/PAL license, and Mailshield has apparently decide to follow the PAL portion of it. Re-read the PAL and you'll see that it's a little less restrictive than you think. However, we, the SpamAssassin developers, should look into this to ascertain that MailShield is following the license. > There is also the possibility, as one person posted, that the SA > Copyright holder or holders have worked a deal with Lyris. If this > is the case they should make this deal known to the SA community > IMO. That has not happened and will not happen. -- Duncan Findlay
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