Milter-greylist

AIDA Shinra wrote:
 > Milter-greylist's license consists of 3 clauses but not a so-called
 > 3-clause BSD.

Right.  But what's the problem with that?  The existing
license is perfectly acceptable.

 > "[23]-clause BSD" usually implies GPL compatibility, but
 > milter-greylist is not. We have three options:

The most obvious options is to keep evrything as-is.
Why do you think something has to be changed?

 > 2. Add the following clause. Moderate legal problems.
 >   4. Neither the name of Emmanuel Dreyfus nor the names of
 >      its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products
 >      derived from this software without specific prior written
 >      permission.

Please excuse me, but that's nonsense.  Adding such a
clause does NOT add any value to the license.  Instead,
it makes it more complicated, without reason.

 > 3. Remove the following clause. I'm not sure it is legal to remove a
 > license restriction without agreements of all code-level contributors.
 > Fortunately, this clause does not seem to refer any legal rights or
 > owes of any contributors other than the original author.
 >   3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this
 >      software must display the following acknowledgement:
 >          This product includes software developed by Emmanuel Dreyfus

Removing that clause would make the license a so-called
"2-clause BSD license".  The most important difference
of that is that it would be GPL-compatible.  The current
license (with the 3rd clause) is not GPL-compatible.

Emmanual has to decide himself whether he wants to change
that and make milter-greylist GPL-compatible.  However,
any contributors whose code is included in milter-greylist
would also have to agree to such a change.

Personally, I wouldn't change anything.  Past experience
with other open-source projects shows that license changes
often lead to problems.  Therefore I recommend to change
it _only_ if there's a very good reason to do so.  There
doesn't seem to be a good reason here.

Just my 2 Euro cents.  :-)

Best regards
   Oliver

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