Re: non-SMTP uses (was: Thoughts on MixMinion archives)

[Nick Mathewson <nickm@alum.mit.edu>]

On Tue, 2002-04-23 at 18:09, Len Sassaman wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Zooko wrote: 
 [...]
> > How do you feel about LGPL?
> 
> I think that if you ship with the code under a GPL license, you will be
> hindering your adoption greatly, particularly as part of a OS-specific
> client app (though I'm not sure being in Python isn't going to do that
> already).
> 
> The LGPL is, in my mind, a much better alternative.
> 
> For instance: Both major Windows remailer clients use Mixmaster code. I'm
> not sure that they would do so if it had been GPL'd.

Once again, I'm proposing that clients =not= be hit by the GPL.  I want
the =client= code to be BSD licensed so that, say, if Microsoft likes,
they can incorporate it into the next version of Outlook.

-- 
Nick