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Apache Rejects Sender ID

Posted by michael on from the poison-pill dept.

hexene writes "In an open letter to the IETF MARID Working Group, the Apache Software Foundation has rejected the patent-encumbered Sender ID specification. This means no Sender ID support for SpamAssassin, Apache JAMES, etc. They state that the current license is generally incompatible with open source, and contrary to the practice of open Internet standards."

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  1. Re:Hoody Hoo! by phats+garage · · Score: 1, Troll

    It looks like this Meng fellow started this SPF thing and gladly hooked up with Microsoft and had no interest in providing an open non-encumbered standard. A wish for open non-encumbered standards is often not simply some irrational manifestation of Microsoft hatred, but rather a desire to let different systems, including free software systems, interact.