Re: [webmin-l] Virtualmin Professional

[Craig W. <cra...@az...>]

On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 23:05 -0700, Barry wrote:
> Craig White wrote: 
> > 
> > ----
> > you should have at least looked at the license before you commented.
> > It's not GPL, it's BSD
> > 
> > http://www.webmin.com/intro.html
> >   
> Yeah, I thought this morning that it would work better if it was BSD
> instead of GPL - that would be fine. But before I looked, Joe Cooper
> wrote (and I trust he should know):
> 
> > Thanks for the encouragement!  We felt that way too.  It just became
> > apparent that it was the best way to answer the needs of commercial
> > hosting providers, without causing any pain to users of the GPL
> > version.
> 
> 
> Hey wait , even though Joe wrote that, I followed your advice and
> checked - we are talking about virtual min, not webmin. And on
> http://www.swelltech.com/virtualmin/ it says:
> 
----
and this perhaps points out some license confusion.

first of all, why can't the greater UK people learn how to spell the
word license ?  ;-)

I couldn't find it.
# locate LICENSE|grep webmin

which is when I went to the webmin website (my second mistake) as this
license has nothing to do with virtualmin.

then of course I see the UK spelling method of the word 'licence'

# locate LICENCE|grep webmin
/opt/webmin-1.210/LICENCE
/opt/webmin-1.210/LICENCE.ja

and assuming that virtualmin would install into the same
installation/binary tree, the file LICENCE probably wouldn't reflect the
proper licensing of both Webmin and Virtualmin which are as you and Joe
have pointed out, quite different - but perhaps this is already taken
care of when Virtualmin is installed - I wouldn't know since I haven't a
use for Virtualmin.

Craig


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