Noel, Could you please tell me whether you are replying as a "representative" of the James project, or as a fellow contributor that knows the answers?
Also, I did not see anywhere in the James site a list of contributed mailets... kind of strange considering that mailets are supposed to be the "main purpose" of James. I probably missed it. Can you point me to the right URL? In reply to your questions: a) I'll preface that the mailet I am implementing is not for everyone. I expect that 10% of administrators will find it too restrictive, while the rest will probably find it ideal. The mailet will reject all email from sources that were not preapproved in a whitelist. Associated tools will handle managing of the list and allow new HUMAN senders to request addition to the list in a manner that is not annoying to the receiving user. c) I have read the ASF license and related info (or as much as I could understand), and it seems acceptable since my primary goal is to end spam once and for all, but I'd like you to clarify a couple of points: 1. Will I be able to keep credit as the author of the mailet? If so, how? 2. If this anti-spam measure is as successful as I expect it to be, I fear that the spammers of the world will try anything to kill it and the Microsofts of the world will try to steal it. Because of it I have been sitting on this design for 3 years. Is it true that the Apache Software Foundation provides free legal defense for its contributors if they are sued as a consequence of a contribution? If it is not, I will not be able to contribute it and will have to go make it commercial just to make enough money to defend myself. Bruno -----Original Message----- From: ext Noel J. Bergman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 2:17 PM To: James Developers List Subject: RE: Contributing a mailet Bruno, > I want to make sure that > (a) It will be accepted as a contribution Can you provide more details on what kind of anti-spam mailet? > (b) It is fully compliant with the standards Follow the sample mailets in the source distribution, keep the code clean and documented. > (c) It is absolutely 100% public domain and cannot be subverted > and used for commercial products or its design principles stolen > and placed in somebody else's patent (so it will probably need > to be GPL or something even stronger). This will not be acceptable, and will require us to reject your code. Please see http://www.apache.org/licenses/. ASF software projects must be licensed using the Apache Software License, and can be used for any purpose, including commercial. Furthermore, "public domain" and GPL are not compatible. --- Noel --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
