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Re: Patent license

2004-08-24 05:47:40
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 08:12:45AM -0400, Meng Weng Wong wrote:
Re the patent licensing,

Harry put out a couple of posts on Monday:

  http://www.imc.org/ietf-mxcomp/mail-archive/msg03496.html
  http://www.imc.org/ietf-mxcomp/mail-archive/msg03497.html

(rename the .bin attachments to .pdf to view)

(could somebody please make those files available online as
PDF and post a url, thanks.)

Here ya go:

http://www.sonologic.nl/srs/SenderID_License-Agreement.pdf
http://www.sonologic.nl/srs/SenderID_License-FAQ.pdf

I urge anyone who has permission to post to the mxcomp list to speak up and 
protest against this license, since this license is imo a danger to those of us 
running free, open software.

The license basically says 'to implement sender id you will have to sign this 
license so that microsoft has every right to apply any patent issue they might 
have around on the shelves' even though at this point they don't know or don't 
want to tell which these patent issues are.

Koen

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