GPL v3

[Richard Frovarp]

Martin.Hepworth wrote:
> BSD -
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> http://www.itwire.com/content/view/14361/1091/
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> To quote from the licence template itself: "Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
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> "Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
> "Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
> "Neither the name of the <ORGANIZATION> nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission."
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> The third condition here would help with the 3 companies I've heard of that are taking the MailScanner code and perhaps not feeding anything back (code or money).
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Yeah, but the BSD license allows them to take the code, change the code, 
and sell it without giving out the code. They couldn't use the 
MailScanner name due to the third condition. However, it wouldn't stop 
them from contributing nothing back. In fact the BSD would allow them to 
get away with it. The GPL makes them provide the source to those that 
acquire their products if the customer asks.