On Tuesday 07 January 2003 16:46 CET Theo Van Dinter wrote: > On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 10:12:50AM -0500, Rose, Bobby wrote: > > Everyone seems more interested in the SA name than the project. Is SA > > still a completely open-source project now or does NAI have > > restrictions or plan on introducing restrictions. For example: if the > > open-source project comes up with or adds some new algorithm of > > detection does that automatically become NAI property which ends up in > > their commercial product (like bayes in 2.50)!? I'm certain that this > > contribution relationship would only be one-way. > > Standard disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer, nor do I play one on tv.
dito. >[...] However, since I believe their code isn't in Perl > (if it is they need to release the code in some form), they're probably > just using ideas from the open source version. I'm not too sure. Aren't the "ideas" protected by the License, too? We're now entering the nebulous field of software patents and friends. Can you "license" an algorithm or just the program, the collection of algorithms? > If it's a direct use > of code, just compiled, they need to point people at the open source > version, include their source, or the nebulous "make other distribution > arrangements with the Copyright Holder" which is Justin and/or Craig, > and I guess that part is up to your interpretation and paranoia level. Nope. Everybody holds the copyright for his part of the code. Eg. all rules you ever contributed to SA are still copyrighted by you. You and me never signed anything giving our ideas to somebody else. It's "Copyright 2000-2002 Justin Mason and others" and the others are many :o) I think they'll try it through PAL §3c. But then they have to state explicitly whet they have changed. > Or at least that's my interpretation of the PAL. Regards, Malte ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
