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Paul Iadonisi wrote:
| On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 14:00, wayne wrote:
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| [snip]
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|>It appears (IANAL) that the Microsoft patent license is incompatible
|>with the GPL. This means that such programs as exim and spamassassin
|>*can not* implement SenderID. This is a problem, and in my humble
|>opinion, a very serious one.
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| I agree it's very serious and it doesn't take a lawyer to see just how
| incompatible this is with the GPL.
|snip
I also fully agree with this statement. I also agree that I don't
need a lawyer to read me a bed time story, so I don't need a lawyer
to read me the GPL. It is incompatable, therefore a real problem,
IMHO.
|snip
| The GPL is a fact of life, whether the IETF likes it or
| not. It is this very dismissiveness that has the potential to make the
| IETF more and more irrelevant.
It is with reservation that I also agree with this point. I have great
admiration for the IETF. That said, I do believe this to be the
case. It seems to me, the folks are dismissive of the GPL for reasons
that are principally political. The FSF has done a fine job of
making the GPL a clear legal issue. Ignoring the law is just silly.
The GPL is here to stay.
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