Re: DEPLOY: Microsoft Royalty Free Sender ID Patent License FAQ

[Mark Shewmaker <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 16:48, Eric Allman wrote:
> As near as I can tell, the question 
> of GPL compatibility is quite ambiguous at this time.

I'm sorry, but the [L]GPL incompatibility couldn't be more unambiguous:

1.  Choice of law restrictions, choice of venue restrictions, and poison
    pills are widely understood to be incompatible with the [L]GPL.

2.  A distributor of an implementation of SenderID would
    have no way of allowing all recipients to modify and further
    redistribute that implementation, which means that it simply
    can't be [L]GPL compatible.

It's too bad the mxcomp list restricted discussion of licensing issues
before yesterday's deadline.  I truly believe we could have ended up
with a licensing solution that everyone could have been pleased as punch
about.

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Mark Shewmaker
mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx