* Michael-John Turner said: > On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 09:14:39PM +0100, Marek Habersack wrote: > > Licensing problems with Cyrus. Close to those with Pine. > > I just had a look at the license now, and here's what it says: > [snip] > # Permission is also granted to Internet Service Providers and others > # entities to use the software for internal purposes. [snip] > # The distribution, modification or sale of a product which uses or is > # based on the software, in whole or in part, for commercial purposes or > # benefits requires specific, additional permission from: > [ snip ] > > It allows distribution of modified copies, but no commercial use > without permission. It'll have to go into non-free, but at least > we can distribute binaries. The snippet about ISPs is completely unclear. I wish I knew whether an ISP can use it for example with IMHO to provide its customers with mail access? marek
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