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Re: [ietf-dkim] IPR posted

2005-09-10 18:22:08
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 Miles Libbey <mlibbeymail-mailsig(_at_)yahoo(_dot_)com> writes:

 As promised, Yahoo! posted the IPR statement for the IP contained
 in the DKIM draft specification to the IETF site today.

Thanks

 [...]  We are pursuing a dual licensing strategy.  One license is
 the GPL,

I really appreciate the effort that Yahoo (and others?) have gone
through for this.

That said, isn't the GPL a copyright license, not a patent license?
And, therefore, you really can't license your patent IPR under the
GPL, right?  Or, are you just saying that the patent license is GPL
compatible?

I guess the devil is in the details, and we shall see Real Soon Now.

As long as the technology can by readily implemented by most major
MTAs, both commercial and open-source, I don't much care.  I think
trying to stop domain-forging/spam/phishing is too important to get
tied up by a bad license.


-wayne

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