[Mailman-Developers] Can i use the Bouncer API a Programm wich is not GPL?

Marc Egli egli at allink.ch
Fri Nov 5 16:01:53 CET 2010


We are building a newsletter application for the django framework. For bounce detection we want to use the Mailman bouncerAPI because reimplementing would be a bad idea. Now my question is: can i release my application under a less restrictive license like the bsd license? I don't distribute Mailman i only list it as a requirement in setup.py

According to the gpl-faq this is a borderline case because i only invoke a function and wait for the response. 
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#NFUseGPLPlugins

Is it possible to use Mailman like this? Is this the intended use of the BouncerAPI?

Marc


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