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Sendmail?
- To: advocacy_(_at_)_openbsd_(_dot_)_org
- Subject: Sendmail?
- From: Brett Glass <brett_(_at_)_lariat_(_dot_)_org>
- Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 13:10:41 -0600
After the licensing discussions regarding Darren Reed's IPF, I became
curious about the current licensing of Sendmail, which is also included
in the OpenBSD distribution and source tree. Sendmail's license is at
http://www.sendmail.com/partner/resources/development/milter_api/LICENSE.txt
Note that this license has a large number of specific requirements which,
taken together,completely rule out the use of the code in any closed
source commercial software project.
This seems to violate the requirements at
http://www.openbsd.org/goals.html
which says, "We want to make available source code that anyone can use
for ANY PURPOSE, with no restrictions."
What do folks think about this? Note that a Berkeley-licensed, truly free
Sendmail does exist (Sun's Sendmail is derived from it), but it is many
years old.
--Brett
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