[ILUG] wu-ftpd

[Martin Donlon]

 From linuxmafia.com:
NAME: Publicfile
SOURCE: http://cr.yp.to/publicfile.html
LICENCE: Has author's copyright, only, and no licence, and thus is 
         distributable only directly by the copyright owner -- proprietary 
         software.  The author (who is hostile to open-source software 
         licencing - see http://cr.yp.to/qmail/dist.html) seems to have 
         deliberately intended this unfortunate situation.  My understanding
         is that you have implied licence to retrieve the package directly
         from the author's site, to write/apply/distribute patches, to compile
         it, and to use it -- but not to redistribute it or works derived from 
         it.  The author addresses this matter (in the abstract) at
         http://cr.yp.to/softwarelaw.html .
COMMENTS: Still an alpha version, at this date.  Provides ftp and
          http file access, disallows writes to the public file area,
          does its work without root authority.  By Daniel J. Bernstein,
          author of anonftpd (which, please see).  Requires Bernstein's
          ucspi-tcp and daemontools packages, which are available under
          the same non-licence.


On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 03:10:00PM -0000, Kenn Humborg wrote:
> > um..http://cr.yp.to/publicfile.html
> 
> I meant a URL to the license.  A few minutes on the site
> showed up no links to the license.
> 
> > The author dislikes opensource software.
> 
> You mean he dislikes that the source is available, that
> people can redistribute modified versions or what?
> 
> Later,
> Kenn
> 
> 
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