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Re: sendmail-license vs sendmail-open-source-license



On Nov 22,  6:01am, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
} 
} Are sendmail-license (used by mail/sendmail* and mail/libmilter) and
} sendmail-open-source-license (used by mail/dk-milter, mail/dkim-milter)
} sufficiently different to keep them both?  Running textproc/wdiff over both
} licenses shows that the difference is mainly in word choice, punctuation
} and capitalisation.

     I spotted enough differences that I believe them to be materially
different licences.  I wouldn't feel comfortable considering them to be
the same without a legal opinion from a qualified lawyer that
specialises in intellectual proprty issues.

}-- End of excerpt from Geert Hendrickx


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