[Fedora-packaging] Is this license okay for a fedora package?

[Jarod Wilson]

Simo Sorce wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-04-01 at 02:28 -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote:
>> Steven Pritchard wrote:
>>> On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 03:45:01PM -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote:
>>>> I'd like to package up Maia Mailguard, and the license appears to be
>>>> original BSD (advertising clause included) with a branding extension
>>>> added. Thoughts?
>>>>
>>>> http://www.maiamailguard.org/license.php
>>> Isn't Maia a fork of amavisd-new?
>> Pretty much, yeah.
>>
>>> If so, how can its license be anything other than than GPL?
> 
> I don't think amavisd-new had any web interface.
> That part of the license may apply only to the web interface.

That is indeed the case.

>> Good question... I'll raise that with the authors.
> 
> Yes, and it would be nice if the author would release it under pure GPL,
> or maybe the Affero GPL ?

That would be a "not likely". :)

http://www.renaissoft.com/pipermail/maia-users/2007-January/008699.html

Seems this won't fly as an official Fedora package. No biggie, the Maia 
folks have offered to host it or link to it or whatever, wherever it 
winds up.

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Jarod Wilson
jwilson at redhat.com