On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 10:47:00PM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote:

> 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)

Sure, will do that.  Thank you for checking so quickly!

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