[Maia-users] Maia RPM and a license query

[Jarod Wilson]

On Apr 02, 2007, at 12:12, Farkas Levente wrote:

> 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...
>
> i already has a spec file maia, if you like you can use.
> there're a few tricks to be able to put config files under /etc/  
> and to
> be able to use together with clamd from extras.

Thanks, but I've already done the same, a spec file isn't a problem.  
The issue at hand is the license.

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com


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