On Mar 17, 2011, at 5:10 PM, "Richard L. Hamilton" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Whew.  Was already to send an explanation, and you beat me to it.
> 
> Unfortunately, you missed one thing that I would have mentioned:
> you do _not_ want to post those UUIDs from a pre-release version,
> because that may be a violation of the non-disclosure agreement (NDA).
> 
> I imagine one of the folks that controls the list will have to delete
> that post from the archive.
> 
> It's really a stupid restriction, because the UUIDs would be completely
> useless to anyone not running the matching pre-release; and in principle,
> if permission wasn't a problem, much of the delay getting the plugin
> updated after an OS update could perhaps be eliminated (depending on
> how long it takes to _test_ the assertion that the plugin, by advertising
> that it has UUIDs that match Mail and the Message framework, is actually
> compatible with them).
> 
> But apparently nobody has ever tried to get permission to use them,
> or they were refused if they did, because from what I've observed here,
> the practice remains to treat those UUIDs from pre-releases as if
> they were proprietary information.
> 

I honestly have better things to do than fight apple legal. 

Chris


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