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Re: DKIM licensing

2005-07-14 09:58:52
Dave Crocker wrote:

Unfortunately still not GPL-compatible due to the advertising clause.

Folks,

Here's the problem:

This list is for discussing the technology of DKIM and pursuing IETF standardization.

The IETF has some rules pertaining to intellectual property and it certainly makes sense to ensure that the IETF DKIM work conforms to those requirements.

It does not, however, make sense for this forum to have a discussion about the subtleties of different kinds of licensing. It is neither the agenda for the list nor the expertise of its participants.

There are actually two classes of licensing issues here:

- Licensing issues associated with the technology itself, e.g., issues relating to IPR associated with any of the internet drafts. I consider these to be somewhat in-scope here, as long as they don't get out of hand or continuously revisit comments that have already been made.

- Licensing issues associated with a particular implementation. These should be discussed on a mailing list associated with the particular implementation, such as dkim-milter-discuss(_at_)sourceforge(_dot_)net(_dot_)

-Jim
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