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Subject: question about LICENSE
From: Brian Behlendorf <brian @ hyperreal . com>
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 14:14:25 -0800 (PST)
To: majordomo-users @ greatcircle . com


Section 2b states:

  No part of Majordomo may be incorporated into any program or other 
  product that is sold, or for which any revenue is received without 
  written permission from Great Circle Associates.  A commercial license 
  will be required in this case.

If majordomo is being built and installed by one company onto a machine for
another company as a service for profit (this other company owning the
machine in the first place), along with a web server and
non-majordomo-related content, and all the terms of 2c are met, then 
does 2b imply that a commercial license is also needed?  I guess more 
distinctly, if we *modify* the source in any way (security patches, new 
keywords to catch in resend, etc) is this modified majordomo suddenly a 
product?

It seems to me that examples of majordomo as a "product" include putting
majordomo on a CD-ROM for sale, enhancing it and bundling it with some other
commercial package, etc... and that this is still more in the vein of a
service.  Thoughts? 

	Brian


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