From: Kent Landfield (kent@hypermail.org)
Date: Mon Aug 05 2002 - 09:13:19 CDT
# On Sat, Aug 03, 2002 at 09:01:51PM +0200, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
#
# > However in the three source files in archive/ you will find
#
# > This license statement forbits commercial use and thus is a
# > proprietory software license incompatible with the GNU GPL.
#
# > - Reimplement it as Free Software.
#
# I've implemented a similar functionality in python under GNU LGPL.
# The result is attached.
#
# It can almost do everything that msg2archive could do.
# Together with "formail" it also replaces mailbox2archive for me.
# (e.g. like cat hypermail-test.9907 | formail -s msg2hypermailarchive.py --month 7 --year 1999 -L hypermail-test -v )
#
# BTW: All my little programs successfully run at the ffii.org
# mailarchive now. ffii.org/archive/mails
# e.g: http://www.ffii.org/archive/mails/groff/
#
# Bernhard
So let me get this straight... Instead of asking me nicely the status
directly, you post a complaint to the list. Then you respond to your own
message with a substitute for the piece you are complaining about. And
the reason you are complaining is that you cannot make money directly
off of the original ? Hypermail is distributed as a part of commercial
packages. The vendors have distributed what this project has created.
There is no problem there at all. If you decide to make a specific
commercial version of hypermail then that's a different beast. Is that
why you wish to get the license corrected ? Or is this a simple "let's
be pure GPL" ? I'd like to understand what you are trying to do and why.
You can email me directly if you wish. I'd prefer that myself. I would
have likely changed it earlier if you had asked me directly. Your tactics
have me curious...
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