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

[Ron Guerin]

Joshua Zeidner wrote:

>   note: YPL has *not* been approved by the OSI.
>    http://www.opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical
> 
>   Zimbra's YPL license page:
>    http://www.zimbra.com/license/yahoo_public_license_1.0.html
> 
>   There is also the Zimbra license, and its realtionship to the
> product at this point is unclear to me, as is probably the intention
> of the managers at Zimbra.  Oops its not Open Source after all!  "We
> call it /open sourcesque/..."

The Zimbra would be the old license, and the Yahoo! Public License is 
the new one.  The YPL is clearly a badgeware license also.  I don't 
expect that's going to win approval.

- Ron