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Debian Project Rejects Sender-ID

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the two-strikes-down dept.

NW writes "Following on the heels of Apache Foundation taking a stance against Sender-ID, the Debian Project announced today their rejection of Sender-ID as well."

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  1. not possible for section 7 of the gpl by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    7. If, as a consequence of a court judgment or allegation of patent infringement or for any other reason (not limited to patent issues), conditions are imposed on you (whether by court order, agreement or otherwise) that contradict the conditions of this License, they do not excuse you from the conditions of this License. If you cannot distribute so as to satisfy simultaneously your obligations under this License and any other pertinent obligations, then as a consequence you may not distribute the Program at all. For example, if a patent license would not permit royalty-free redistribution of the Program by all those who receive copies directly or indirectly through you, then the only way you could satisfy both it and this License would be to refrain entirely from distribution of the Program.

  2. MS's stance goes clear to the top on this by optimus2861 · · Score: 5, Informative
    Browsing the mailing list, I came across this message from Matt Sergeant of MessageLabs, about a conversation he had with Craig Spietzle of MS. Notable excerpt:

    I pressed him: "Will you fix the license?". I never really got a confirmed yes or no, but my feeling was "no" when we ended the conversation. I suggested that they give their IP to the IETF (such as I believe there is precedence of - I know that IBM has committed patents to the public domain before in a similar act of openness), to which I was told that Craig believed this was a reasonable idea, but that Bill Gates himself had vetoed that idea because of the current focus on patent gathering and IPR issues at Microsoft.

    (emphasis added)