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Re: Maia Mailguard License



On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 17:53 -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 05:46:44PM +0000, Henning Makholm wrote:
> > > 4.  At least one of the following branding conventions must be used:
> > > ~    a. The Maia Mailguard logo appears in the page-top banner of
> > > ~       all HTML output pages in an unmodified form, and links
> > > ~       directly to the Maia Mailguard home page; or
> > >
> > > ~    b. The "Powered by Maia Mailguard" graphic appears in the HTML
> > > ~       output of all gateway pages that lead to this software,
> > > ~       linking directly to the Maia Mailguard home page
> > > ~       <img src="http://www.maiamailguard.com/images/poweredbymaia.gif";>
> 
> It's interesting that copyright holders feel it's necessary to force
> people to advertise their software.  What happened to making your
> software good enough that word of mouth happens on its own, and people
> advertise your software because they want to?

Freedom of software begins with choosing if it is licensed with a
GPL-compatible or not.

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