On Saturday 17 June 2006 19:41, Joe Smith took the opportunity to write: > On 6/17/06, Magnus Holmgren <holmgren@lysator.liu.se> wrote: > >[snip] > > It is also my understanding that Yahoo's license, unlike Microsoft's > > SenderID > > license, is quite OK. Is that correct? > > I don't know. I glanced at the licence, and it was not terribly clear, if > you have not done so already, you should probably ask d-legal to look at > the licence. > I am CCing that list. > > Ok, 1.1 does not seem to grant the right to sell the code/program. Section > 1.2 grants the right to sell "for the sole purpose of implementing a sender > verification solution in connection with e-mail.". I'm not sure if limiting > the scope of Sale is allowed by the DFSG or not. > > I'm slightly concerned that the "specification" is an Internet-Draft. More > distubing is that the Licence give a URL for the Draft, but the URL does > not work. The current version of the draft is <http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-delany-domainkeys-base-04.txt>. Older versions seem to have been deleted. There are various references to these older versions around lying around in the code, older license texts etc. > Section 3.3 says "You must create Your own product or service names or > trademarks for Your Licensed Code and You agree not to use the term > "DomainKeys" in or as part of a name or trademark for Your Licensed Code.". > This may be a problem, considering the name of the package. > > Section 3.5 is a you must obey the laws section. > > Section 3.8 is choice of law and venue. What about the statement on http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys? "Yahoo!'s DomainKeys Intellectual Property may be licensed under either of the following terms: * Yahoo! DomainKeys Patent License Agreement * GNU General Public License version 2.0 (and no other version)." Also, the links on http://domainkeys.sourceforge.net/ to "Other Libraries" seem to indicate that it's OK to release DomainKeys libraries packages with DomainKeys in their name. -- Magnus Holmgren holmgren@lysator.liu.se
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