On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 05:42:47PM -0400, 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? 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 fully agree with that.

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