Bill, I think the matter of the licensing and potential patent problems with SPF are limiting factors only for the Open Source movement's software development, as it affects developers, not implementors. As we see with the Apache Software Foundations' letter to the MARID group, they won't put support for it in their software.
Fine and good, that doesn't stop anyone else from writing an add-on, and somebody will. Fork, you say? Nothing new there! In the face of this opposition, Microsoft may relent and drop their paper tiger licensing scheme, and make a promise to not inflict patent fees. If I remember correctly, TrollTech had similar licensing restrictions with their Qt library, and getting GNU support for applications that used it was a problem, and slowed KDE adoption thereby. Although the source had been available for years, but not for commercial use, TrollTech eventually GPL'ed the source and all was well. I think they ended up with a dual licence so that free-use and and commercial for-profit were both acceptable. Me, I think SPF is useful, even if only viewed as Sender-ID "Lite", and I want to use it. Andrew 8) -----Original Message----- From: Bill Landry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 11:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] SPF 2.0 ? Good luck trying to rally support around this one. If the open source community is not going to support it, and none of Microsoft's competitors (Yahoo, AOL, GMail, etc.), then what makes you think that other ISPs and companies are going to rally around SenderID, especially when their are other competing standards that are not so encumbered by patents and licenses as SenderID is? Bill ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy Schmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 10:55 AM Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] SPF 2.0 ? Hi, Nope, they don't read Apache announcements. They want to make sure that they can send newsletters to their MSN and Hotmail subscribers and want the appropriate records added to their domains. Now, if my clients (and possibly other hosters' clients) demand those TXT records to be added (which they are entitled to), then I give a horse's butt about Apache, Unix and any other political faction. As a provider, I'm must being pragmatic - if there is a significant number of domains that have DNS TXT records with SPF2.0 information, then I sure hope that the leading anti-Spam software (Declude) will "exploit" those TXT records for MY benefit. Best Regards Andy Schmidt H&M Systems Software, Inc. 600 East Crescent Avenue, Suite 203 Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458-1846 Phone: +1 201 934-3414 x20 (Business) Fax: +1 201 934-9206 http://www.HM-Software.com/ --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com. --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com. --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
