Paul Iadonisi wrote:
On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 14:21, Roy Badami wrote:
Even if Sender ID is incompatible with the GPL [2] -- and I'm
skeptical that it is except under the most extreme interpretations --
And we have yet to see a convincing legal argument (or *any* legal
argument) from an attorney posted to this list. I'd like to know what
Anne Mitchell (on this list) thinks of her legal analysis being called
extreme by a non-lawyer.
The main point here is whether the current IPR issue can delay
deployment. The mere fact that several lawyers have stated their expert
opinion that this license is incompatible with existing open source
licenses, can cause deployment problems. However, it is important to
note how people react to their statements. We have already seen several
parties including myself stating that they will not implement Sender-ID
in their products unless the legal terms are changed, or the legal
situtation is clarified. We also saw several parties, including Roy,
state that they are willing to implement it even with the current legal
situation intact. Therefore, it seems to me that there exists a sizable
percentage of the possible market for this standard that will hesistate
to deploy Sender-ID. This, we have a deployment problem. Whether the
underlying facts that cause it are true, might not be relevant, since we
care about what people will do.
Yakov