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Re: DEPLOY/IPR: Fundamental Disagreements, or Get On With It

2004-08-25 11:52:01

"Gordon Fecyk" <gordonf(_at_)pan-am(_dot_)ca> writes:

It's quite clear that the GNU/FSF camp in this list will go to full
lengths

I have issues with the license and the open source project I am
concerned about (SpamAssassin, an ASF project) is now licensed with the
Apache License 2.0 which is about as business-friendly as an open source
license gets.

I have been working with others to communicate with Microsoft and
resolve various serious issues in the license, but Microsoft hasn't yet
fixed those issues.  Note that the issues affect many open source
projects and more licenses than the GPL are incompatible.  In addition,
the patent license is not exactly friendly to the open source
development and redistribution model.

Daniel

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Daniel Quinlan
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