Licensing Question/Concern about dkim-milter

Scott Kitterman ubuntu at kitterman.com
Fri Jul 20 22:30:48 BST 2007


On Thursday 19 July 2007 19:01, Michael D. Stemle, Jr. wrote:

> My opinion, however, is no substitute for sound legal counsel.  Wouldn't it
> be much easier if Yahoo hadn't been jerky enough to patent this in the
> first place?

Sure.  In their favor I will say that they did respond to community pressure 
and add the "or GPL" option.  Initially that was not their.  This was in 
marked contrast to other companies working in the e-mail authentication 
technology arena that used licenses clearly not GPL compatible.

Scott K



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