Hello Loren, Wednesday, August 25, 2004, 9:32:26 PM, you wrote:
>> The version 2 Apache license has some text allowed "trivial" contributions >> to not require CLAs -- but then, what's the definition of "trivial"? we >> haven't got a really good definition of that as it applies to rules yet, >> unfortunately ;) LW> I'd suggest as a lower limit that a contribution of a single rule ought to LW> be 'trivial' in the CLA sense, even if it does happen to tag 50% of the spam LW> and no ham. A rule like > header T_DOUBLE_USCORES Subject =~ /__/ yes. A rule that had seven or eight negative look-aheads, eight or nine character classes, and nine or ten alternatives, might be the type of rule that requires a CLA. I'm more concerned with the method of submission. If a single rule is submitted with the intent that it be available to the entire community, that's good for me. If we don't know that, however, it's possible the submitter /meant/ it to be available to individual systems that are doing their own anti-spam work, but does *not* want it to be included in any distribution that will be incorporated into and then sold as a commercial product. That's why I'm trying to track authorship of the SARE rules I manage, so we can find out whether the original author has any objections to full SA distribution if/when appropriate. Bob Menschel
