Why is the MailMan source code no longer open?
MailMan began life as a GPL product. Because of our desire to help to move the world forward just a little bit at a time by sharing our efforts with others and because of a general sense of honesty and openness, we originally made the source code for MailMan available to the world under the same non-commercial license that allowed you to install and use MailMan. Unfortunately, we were almost immediately (less than a week after the release) bitten by pirates. Apparently there are people out there that are unable or too lazy to develop something like MailMan by themselves, so they just removed the “Endymion Corporation” headers from the source code and started trying to sell MailMan as their own product. Because of these pirates and other abuses we are making the true MailMan source code available only to licensees. This does not preclude non-profit organizations from obtaining the MailMan source for modification. If you represent a verifiable non-profit organization and you are interest
