Re: [hylafax-users] SendFax vs HylaFax

[Charles Duffy <cduffy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lee Howard wrote:
> It has a unique license, indeed.  But the end-all of the "just e-mail 
> me and ask" license is that irrespective of how you use it, the code 
> becomes public domain two years after that code was "released".  So it 
> should be very easy to find a release that is now public domain. 
I completely missed the timeout clause.
> This license is different, yes, than that of HylaFAX... although I 
> don't know why it would make it any less-attractive - unless you 
> happen to want to use some really new release of mgetty+sendfax (is 
> there one?) and happen to want to bundle the software into a package 
> that you intend to sell and market based on the bundling of the 
> software.  Gert clearly states that getting paid for consulting work 
> related to mgetty+sendfax does not constitute "direct profit". 
Right. In our case, the intent is distributing servers with 
mgetty+sendfax or HylaFAX preinstalled to provide some functionality to 
our application.

So on a straightforward reading, this *does* count as bundling the 
software into a package to be sold and marketed as (among a great many 
other things) having faxing support.

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