So if SA is still opensource and all the confusion is coming from the fact that NAI owns the SA name and not the project tree, why not just change the name. Everyone seems to be thinking that NAI owns the SpamAssassin project now and will rape it and leave it for dead the way they did PGP. I think the status of the project needs to get clarified ASAP to keep people from bailing and leading to the fragmentation of ideas spread across other antispam projects.
I wish we could get more info from Justin or Craig to clear up everything. Justin's last message did raise some concern with the remark of "There's no closing of the source involved (except for their own (Deersoft now NAI) proprietary modifications according to the terms of the Artistic license)." What code that is in SA does this include? -----Original Message----- From: Theo Van Dinter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 10:56 AM To: Steve Thomas Cc: 'Matt Sergeant'; 'SATalk' Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Goodbye On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 07:31:49AM -0800, Steve Thomas wrote: > Are you sure that they can't differentiate between the OS project and > the commercial product? Yes, you'd be contributing to NAI's product, > but you'd also be contributing to my anti-spam efforts (which has zero > to do with NAI), as well as the anti-spam efforts of thousands of > others, as well as OS projects such as amavisd-new... I have to say that I don't understand what the issue is exactly. NAI could have used code/ideas before too. The licensing on the OS code hasn't changed, it's GPL or PAL based on what the end user wants to use. Granted, NAI is now much more likely to use the code, or at least rules/ideas anyway, but they could have done that before. What if Microsoft decided to use the code/rules in the same way and integrate into exchange/outlook? There's nothing stopping them, and I would consider that more dangerous than NAI for competition. -- Randomly Generated Tagline: "Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex, intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple, stupid behavior." - Dee Hock, former CEO of Visa International ------------------------------------------------------- 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
