[Maia-users] Maia RPM and a license query

[Freddie Cash]

On Monday 02 April 2007 07:41 am, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> 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...

Search the mailing list archives.  There's a long thread in there from 
last year that covers all the licensing issues.

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