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Re: Yahoo!'s DomainKeys and Cisco's IIM have merged

2005-06-03 05:26:47


On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, Andrew Newton wrote:

There is at least one MTA author who has outright stated that the DK license is not compatible with the GPL. And while many people have stated that the DK license is open source compatible, I'm not sure any of them are from the open source community.

The DK license may be open source compatible, but for this to be an acceptable statement more information is needed.

Well, the right thing to do is to ask lawyer for OSS Larry Rosen and optionally Eben Moglen from FSF. It would probably take a a month before they can find time to review license details and give an answer on which, if any, clauses in license are not compatible so might be good to get
started right now.

I would also like to note that Domainkeys is claimed to be a trademarked term (and not by yahoo). Something for IETF to investigate as well so you
don't get surprises after last call :)

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William Leibzon
Elan Networks
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