[Dovecot] Some quick questions about dovecot

[Václav Haisman]

Michael Dasenbrock wrote, On 11.7.2008 18:44:
> Hello there,
> 
> I'm an engineer investigating a new project here at Apple. We are
> considering using Dovecot in our Mac OS X server product, and I was hoping
> you could help clarify a couple of issues regarding licensing.  We're
> equipped to handle most of the requirements of the Lesser General Public
> License 2.1 and your other open source licenses (e.g. MIT, etc), but we
> wanted to check with you about certain areas prior to our potential use.
> 
> 1) Are you the sole copyright owner of Dovecot?  If not, who else should we
> contact?  
No. I am completely baffled why you are asking me these questions, I am 
CC'ing the Dovecot mailing list where you are more likely to get these 
questions answered.

 >
> 2) To the extent that Apple made any changes to Dovecot and released these
> outside of Apple, we would release the source code to those changes under
> the LGPL. Does this align with your understanding as well?  We are happy to
> provide the changes, BTW.
>  
> 3) In terms of proprietary code that links dynamically to LGPL¹d libraries,
> is it your understanding that there are no requirements imposed on the
> proprietary software itself in terms of having to open-source the
> proprietary software or to allow reverse engineering of the proprietary
> software?  For example, if Apples¹ [[insert proprietary code example]] links
> to the LGPL code in Dovecot Mail Server, would that code be subject to the
> above requirements?
>  
> 4) Do you have any plans to release Dovecot (or new modifications, versions)
> under LGPL 3 or do you plan to stay with LGPL 2.1?
> 
> Thanks for your contributions to the Open Source Software community. We hope
> that it will work out to work together.
>  
> Sincerely,
> Michael Dasenbrock
> 
> 
> 

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