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Re: DEPLOY: A personal take on the IPR topic

2004-09-01 18:44:47

In <C6127CFF-FC5F-11D8-BB96-000393A56BB6(_at_)glyphic(_dot_)com> Mark Lentczner 
<markl(_at_)glyphic(_dot_)com> writes:

As the chairs have asked for information about personal deployment, I
wanted to share my view on the topic of IPR:

In light of the license terms, I will not be coding any implementation
of the portions of SenderID that are covered by the IPR claim.


I will add my own personal deployment take.


I am the co-author of one of the most widely used SPF implementations.
Since I wrote the implementation in order to help out with the
spam/forgery problem, it is important to me to have this
implementation distributed far and wide.  It is also important for me
to run my own code.

I do not believe that the current SenderID license will be accepted by
most Linux and *BSD distributions and code requiring that license
would be excluding from those distributions.   A great deal of work
has been done by others to get this SPF implementation into various
distributions and patches written for most MTAs.

It I believe that it would therefore be counter productive to develope
or deploy SenderID.  I believe that this will likely slow the
deployment by many others.



-wayne



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