The SpamAssassin development team would like to announce that we intend to become part of the Apache Software Foundation <http://www.apache.org/>. We are now working on the final steps required before the Apache Software Foundation can approve our request.
We believe that this transition will benefit the SpamAssassin community in a variety of ways. The ASF is a great organization and their philosophy is very in tune with ours. They also have the know-how and infrastructure necessary to help us with various aspects (technical, legal, and so on) of our project that are difficult in an informal organization such as ours. To initiate this transition, all the major developers and copyright holders, including Network Associates, have agreed to license their code to the ASF. (Granting copyright is also available as an option, but is not necessary.) We now ask the remaining contributors of code to grant similar permission so that their code contributions can be brought into the new project. This will require that each of these contributors fill out an Apache Contributor License Agreement: http://incubator.apache.org/forms/ASF_Contributor_License_2_form.pdf To help get the word out, we will send a separate mail in the next few days to people we think are contributors -- if you get that mail, please respond to it as soon as possible. If you are a contributor, please fax or mail the contributor license back to the ASF as per the instructions in the agreement form. When you send it in, please also notify us at <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. I also want to stress that if you are not comfortable having your past contribution go to the ASF, please speak up and we will immediately honor your request and remove your code. Please also feel free to email the ASF board of directors <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> if you feel the need to escalate any such request. If you have any other questions or if you have contributed code to SA, but we don't get in touch, send mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> because we may have accidentally overlooked your code contribution! -- the SpamAssassin developer team ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
