[Mimedefang] GPLv3

[Martin Blapp]

Hi,

Filtering is only a small part of our product, the main parts
are all written by ourself (We sell ISP packages with docsis cable modem 
provisioning software).

But ...

> OK.  Why is that?  What specifically in GPL3 is the problem?

Exactly for the same reason the FreeBSD people have. If we have a licence
problem somewhere in our own ports tree, it would be horrible to have
the licence invalidated for all other GPLv3 packages. Our ports tree
contains currently about 250 OSS packages.

Another part is the Tivoization. Our customers have the whole source
tree available, but we don't want to have local changes on the customer
side without proper integration. We update the mimedefang-filter config
automatically if there are any new changes (and overwrite local customer
changes in principle.) If we aren't allowed to do this anymore, we really
have a problem. Updating will be horrible then.

> I don't see that at all from GPL3.  I think that's Stallman's
> interpretation.  Besides, Stallman cannot possibly enforce that -- it's
> up to each copyright holder to enforce the license.
>
>> Some people are already talking about a fork of gcc and other Gnu software.
>
> I think this is rash.  I honestly don't see anything in GPL3 that's
> *that* bad.

IMHO it will happen of gcc will change to GPL3.

--
Martin