Re: Qmail-LDAP License

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 11:10:32AM +0000, Hugo Monteiro wrote:
> Andre, Claudio, et al,
> 
> Since DJB changed his lincensing model, putting his work on public
> domain, and having read the Qmail-LDAP patch license, which states:
> 
> "This copyright notice applies to the qmail-ldap patch. It does not apply
> to the original qmail-1.03 by Dan Bernstein. It also partly applies to
> the resulting source and object code. In that Dan Bernsteins copyright
> remains intact and is enhanced with ours as derivative work."
> 
> Am i right to assume that the patch itself is now in the public
> domain also? I mean, if the DJB software lincense is to remain
> intact, then the Qmail-LDAP license, through what is stated, cannot
> be more restrictive than the qmail original license, right?
> 
> Please correct me if i'm overlooking any aspect of this.
> 

No the qmail-ldap patches are under a 4-clause BSD license. Files that were added
by our patch actually have a license at the top. The qmail-ldap patch is
not in public domain.

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:wq Claudio