[Mimedefang] GPLv3
David F. Skoll
dfs at roaringpenguin.com
Mon Jul 2 14:30:28 EDT 2007
Kevin A. McGrail wrote:
> However, making things more complicated, the mimedefang.pl was based on
> a file from MIME-Tools which means it could fall back to the license
> from MIME-Tools.
mimedefang.pl is no longer based on a file from MIME-Tools. It was
originally inspired by it, but no longer has any resemblance to it.
> So fundamentally, I think MIMEDefang and any derivitive works (very
> likely including CanIT) might completely fall under a much broader
> license than RP probably wants. I know that what RP does in providing
> CanIT counts as distribution. So I think the code for CanIT might have
> to be public.
No. MIMEDefang no longer remotely contains any MIME-Tools code. You
can check by looking at the MIME::Tools package.
I will have to fix the COPYING vs. per-file discrepancy. Most likely,
I will change COPYING to read "or later".
Regards,
David.
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