[JDEV] Re: theoretic-smtp, Ransom License, Jabber and GPL incompatibility

[Michael Brown]

>
http://www.google.de/search?q=cache:swIj312NAJAC:www.gnu.org/projects/dotgnu
/proposals/active.html+dotgnu-jabber&hl=de&ie=UTF-8
> >The DotGNU-Jabber Integration Project aims to help DotGNU
> >catch up to
> >Microsoft by using Jabber's existing code and user base.
> >Note the existing code base.
> >It has existing servers, modules, and clients that are, or could
> >become, GPL'ed.
>
> That "COULD become" is a reference to the Ransom license,
> which after a certain amount of donatations will become free.

That could be a reference to just about any non-GPL'ed Jabber software.  For
example we could one day choose to release Yabber under the GPL.  Right now
it's not.  You are reading way too much into this.

> The jabberstudio server contains a CVS server that has GPL and JOSL
> code. That is why I went to the jabbercentral.org and downloaded
> the entire source code from cvs to review it.
>
> Then I noticed that they were hosting "Ransomed" code from Adam which
> is hosted in violation of his own license. Also I am then obligated to
> delete the code from my server after one month. As we all aggreed, this
> is not appropiate.

You downloaded this from "jabbercentral.org*?  Jabber central has a whole
pile of non-open sourced software on it.  If you look at
http://www.jabbercentral.org/clients/ you will see it even has a column for
the type of license.  Or are you meaning JabberStudio.org?

Michael.