Cobalt Mailscanner/F-Prot PKG

[Nick Phillips]

On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 11:03:26AM -0400, Jonothon Ortiz wrote:

> Please be honest and do not use the pkg's if you use your RAQ commerically.

A better idea (and one of the common ways for people distributing Free
Software that works with non-Free Software to get round this problem) is
probably for the package to ask you where you have the f-prot package
tarball, and install using that.

That way, the user themself has to download the f-prot stuff and read/deal
with any licensing issues before it gets to you. I would expect Frisk to
be very happy for you to package it that way, but very unhappy if you start
distributing f-prot yourself.

Besides which, mailscanner itself is released under the GPL, and whether or
not packaging it with a product for which source is not available in this
way constitutes "mere aggregation" (and therefore lets you off the requirement
to include sources for everything) is open to vigourous debate.

In other words, you may well be violating the licences of both products by
distributing them in this way.

However, by ensuring that the user obtains the non-Free chunk (F-Prot in
this case) on their own, you keep everybody happy.


Cheers,


Nick

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