[Maia-users] Maia RPM and a license query

[Jarod Wilson]

On Apr 02, 2007, at 20:12, Robert LeBlanc wrote:

> Jarod Wilson wrote:
>
>> 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?
>
> Close.  See
> <http://www.renaissoft.com/pipermail/maia-users/2007-January/ 
> 008699.html>
> for a more detailed explanation.

Excellent, that's exactly what I was looking for. Shoulda searched  
the list archive first... :)

>> 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...
>
> Whether you can persuade a repository to include your RPM or not, I'm
> sure that a lot of Maia users would love to have access to it, even if
> it's just linked from the Maia website.  If you host it yourself we  
> can
> link to it from the Maia downloads page, or we can host a copy of  
> it for
> you if you prefer.

Cool. Sounds like its a no-go for the official Fedora repo (more or  
less the same ruling as Debian, based on FSF feedback), but I've got  
connections to a few 3rd-party ones, so getting it into one of them  
shouldn't be a problem. I'll keep ya posted...

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com