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Re: In favour of Sender ID (was: DEPLOY: SPF/Sender ID support in Courier.)

2004-09-01 11:01:46

On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 10:13:06AM -0700, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote:
Sender-ID is licensed for everyone's free use and it is not 
necessary for individual users or distributors of the program
to obtain independent licenses.

The license claims to grant a "non-transferable, non-sublicenseable" right to
distribute source code copies of Licensed Implementations.  That strongly
implies, to me at least (IANAL), that distributors require their own licences.
Legal opinions provided on the list to date appear to agree. 

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