[nylug-talk] The future of Zimbra after Microsoft's bid for Yahoo!

[Ron Guerin]

Ron Guerin wrote:
> George Bourozikas wrote:

>> Also, has the Yahoo! Public License (which is used for Zimbra Open Source) 
>> been scrutinized in any way?
> 
> Yahoo have not owned Zimbra long enough to leave a mark on it I would 
> think, so another valid question would be to ask about the license it 
> used to be under.

To answer my own question here "Oh yeah! Now I remember...".  Rick Moen 
wrote about Zimbra and other "Badgeware" licenses last year.  Zimbra's 
license wasn't approved by OSI.

http://linuxgazette.net/134/moen.html

It is said a picture is worth a thousand words.  For those who'd prefer 
to get the pictorial explanation for why badgeware is a problem, here's 
one that shows what a page of an app based on badgeware-licensed 
software might look like:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stabilo-boss/93136022/

- Ron