On 2013/05/13 17:42, Ted Unangst wrote: > On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 21:51, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > > - I'm a bit dubious about this license. > > From the manpage: > > > > | SEE ALSO > > | Mail::SpamAssassin::Message::Metadata::Received, from which the > > rules > > | and some of the IP address matching constants were blatantly > > stolen. > > > ... Wasn't spamassassin apache-licensed by the time this was written? > > or is it just using code from an earlier version of SA? > > Specific to this port: > Are "rules and IP address matching constants" subject to copyright? > What's the text in the individual files actually say? Does either > license affect the permit options? > > In general: > Are we really going to take it upon ourselves to be the copyright > police?
Oh, good point, that's Debian isn't it: and they have libemail-received-perl ;-) > I'd just as soon take whatever upstream's author says is the > license and stay out of whatever disputes there may be (and certainly > let's not go causing trouble). I'm OK with the updated version (though Marcus, watch out there's a CVS directory in the tar, please zap it before you import)
