Hi, I was told by Brett to send you guys an email about the licensing question I had. Is their any possible way to purchase a copy of the roundcube script from you that isn't released under the GPL license? I'm willing to pay any reasonable price; the reason for the copy of the roundcube script not released under the GPL is to allow my company (Dynno.com coming soon) to be able to place our copyright on the script. Please be assured that your script won't be used for resale however, it will be used to provide email addresses to our members. Send me a reply if or if not this is possible, Best Regards.
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On Nov 9, 2007 11:48 AM, I J imageyourself@yahoo.com wrote:
Hi, I was told by Brett to send you guys an email about the licensing question I had. Is their any possible way to purchase a copy of the roundcube script from you that isn't released under the GPL license? I'm willing to pay any reasonable price; the reason for the copy of the roundcube script not released under the GPL is to allow my company (Dynno.com coming soon) to be able to place our copyright on the script. Please be assured that your script won't be used for resale however, it will be used to provide email addresses to our members. Send me a reply if or if not this is possible, Best Regards.
You need to put YOUR copyright on someone else' work?
Ok? =)
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I don't hold the copyright, so this isn't my decision to make, but...
On Friday 09 November 2007, I J wrote:
Is their any possible way to purchase a copy of the roundcube script from you that isn't released under the GPL license? I'm willing to pay any reasonable price; [...]
You're suggesting that the roundcube community accept money to release its code to somebody completely unknown...
[...] to allow my company (Dynno.com coming soon) to be able to place our copyright on the script.
...to enable them to do whatever they wish with the code, including non-free distribution, the removal of credits, the refusal to undisclose the source, ...
Please be assured that your script won't be used for resale however, it will be used to provide email addresses to our members.
...and all we have is your word that you'll use the software for nothing but what you could do right now, under a GPL license?
As I said, the decision isn't mine to make, but this stinks to heaven. And I'm confident the community will think the same, because I remember at least one other occasion where it has chosen freedom over dollars.
~Mik
I J wrote:
Hi, I was told by Brett to send you guys an email about the licensing question I had. Is their any possible way to purchase a copy of the roundcube script from you that isn't released under the GPL license? I'm willing to pay any reasonable price; the reason for the copy of the roundcube script not released under the GPL is to allow my company (Dynno.com http://dynno.com/ coming soon) to be able to place our copyright on the script. Please be assured that your script won't be used for resale however, it will be used to provide email addresses to our members. Send me a reply if or if not this is possible, Best Regards.
If I remember the GPL correctly you can do that - just use Roundcube (or any other GPLed software) and make changes to it. If you sell the software you have to also release the changes. Freedom to use it.
Nevertheless the copyright will never belong to you or your company, it always belongs to the person who has written the code, in case of Roundcoube a group of developers.
Mike
Michael Baierl wrote:
If I remember the GPL correctly you can do that - just use Roundcube (or any other GPLed software) and make changes to it. If you sell the software you have to also release the changes. Freedom to use it.
Finally I found an example - 1blu, a hosting company located in Germany, is using Roundcube: https://webmail.1blu.de/
Some screens (German) can be found in their help system: http://faq.1blu.de/index.php?action=artikel&cat=127&id=222&artlang=de
They removed the copyright notice (better: the powered by notice), but the copyright still belongs to Roundcube.
Mike
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