Re: Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::IPFilter

[Kevin A. McGrail]

On 3/14/2014 3:37 PM, Tamer Rizk wrote: Note on previous message by "the ability to take the code in an independent direction" I mean independently, such that SA is still free to do whatever it wants. Isn't that just a standard code-fork which the ASF 2.0 License permits without issue other than you have to attribute that ASF code is included? https://www.apache.org/foundation/license-faq.html#WhatDoesItMEAN does the best job of answering the question. Tamer Rizk wrote: I was joking too. In any case, legalese aside, I think attribution is both ethical and okay on either side of the table, the divergence of opinion seems to be with the copyright. Besides attribution, what I am trying to achieve with the copyright is the ability to take the code in an independent direction as a copyright holder five years in the future if SA hypothetically decides to be purchased by Oracle or what have you. I am not sure if a dual copyright (which based on my limited understanding is the same thing as a perpetual, transferable, non-revocable license) is possible, but if so, I would be more than happy to assign. Kevin A. McGrail wrote: On 3/14/2014 2:59 PM, Tamer Rizk wrote: Sure, no problem, I would be happy to contribute to helping the ongoing effort to solve the global spam problem and as a small token of appreciation for the SpamAssassin project and the Apache Foundation in general. Can you point me to the appropriate CLA so that I may verify that there are no conflicts with anything else that I am working on? :-) See https://www.apache.org/licenses/#clas In so much as there is no conflict, SpamAssassin is more than welcome to an irrevocable, perpetual and transferable license to use and make changes to the contribution in any manner. I would retain copyright attribution within the source and documentation of the package and its derivatives somewhat akin to a leaner version of Sir Bacon sans lines 2-5. I don't think Sir Bacon actually has any copyright on the code, actually.  I think Alex was joking about the dead guy and BACN If code has a copyright or author other than ASF, ASF policy is it is removed - https://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html has more on the issue.  So you can give us permission to remove that information but otherwise, you really aren't transferring the contribution to the ASF. regards, KAM -- Kevin A. McGrail President Peregrine Computer Consultants Corporation 3927 Old Lee Highway, Suite 102-C Fairfax, VA 22030-2422 http://www.pccc.com/ 703-359-9700 x50 / 800-823-8402 (Toll-Free) 703-359-8451 (fax) kmcgr...@pccc.com