Re: Qmail-LDAP License

Andre Gerhard <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.qmail.ldap
Organization CCE USP
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Claudio,

Is there a roadmap or plans for future developments of qmail-ldap ?

Or we can assume that the software will not be updated anymore
(or at least not in the near future) ?

Sincerely
Andre Gerhard

On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 13:00:15 +0100
Claudio Jeker <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.
> 
> -- 
> :wq Claudio
> 
>
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