qmail one of the fastest MTAs around for outgoing email, especially mailing lists. If you really want to blast out copies, check out the big-concurrency patch, which allow you to send to more than 250 recipients simultaneously. It is also generally considered to be one of if not the most secure MTA.
Is there any point? Will your software be relevant in 5 years? Note that each release will have a seperate copyright period. You will not have to renew the copyright on something you wrote 4 years, 11 months, and 30 days ago in order to release a new, validly copyright version of it today.
Or, in the case of GPL software, the "copyleft" already allows copies to be made. The expiry of the copyright in that case would allow somebody to make modifications to (the now 5 year old version of) your software and release it as their own. What will they gain?
The same logic that applies to copyright work having their copyright's expire also applies to copyleft work, does it not? The GPL does not replace copyright rules, it expands them to specifically grant freedoms. Once a copyright expires, then the GPL cannot be considered to be binding.
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You can find my standard response (it's too long to post here) here.
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qmail one of the fastest MTAs around for outgoing email, especially mailing lists. If you really want to blast out copies, check out the big-concurrency patch, which allow you to send to more than 250 recipients simultaneously. It is also generally considered to be one of if not the most secure MTA.
Is there any point? Will your software be relevant in 5 years? Note that each release will have a seperate copyright period. You will not have to renew the copyright on something you wrote 4 years, 11 months, and 30 days ago in order to release a new, validly copyright version of it today.
Or, in the case of GPL software, the "copyleft" already allows copies to be made. The expiry of the copyright in that case would allow somebody to make modifications to (the now 5 year old version of) your software and release it as their own. What will they gain?
The same logic that applies to copyright work having their copyright's expire also applies to copyleft work, does it not? The GPL does not replace copyright rules, it expands them to specifically grant freedoms. Once a copyright expires, then the GPL cannot be considered to be binding.
You can find my standard response (it's too long to post here) here.