[Maia-users] Maia RPM and a license query

[Jarod Wilson]

I've got a reasonable RPM together for maia mailguard, which I was hoping to 
be able to submit for inclusion in Fedora, but there are some concerns over 
the license. Basically, "not free enough" according to the FSF (and Debian 
legal), so the Fedora packaging board has good reason to believe this can't 
go into Fedora-proper.

On the license front... Someone asked "hey, isn't this just a fork of 
amavisd-new?" And if so "how can it be licensed anything but GPL?". I didn't 
have answers for that, and didn't find one with a tiny bit of poking at the 
licensing pages in the maia wiki, so I'm asking here. Is the maia license 
more specific to the web ui portion and the core amavisd-maia bits still GPL 
or something along those lines?

Regardless, even if I can't get maia into the official Fedora repo, I'll 
probably get the package stashed in a 3rd-party repo somewhere...

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com