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Ralph Seichter writes: > Theo Van Dinter wrote: > > I'm not 100% clear on the ASF rules related to this, but IMO: The main > > issue is that the SARE work isn't licensed under the ASL. > > The SARE rulesets are provided with "Artistic/GPL dual" license. Are > there major differences from ASL 2.0 ? IMO, not particularly ;) to my mind, they're both open source licenses. ASL has a little more emphasis on traceability of contributions and more definitive assertions that they really were contributed by the original author, similar to how the linux kernel is now doing it with the GPL. This helps avoid SCO-style craziness down the line. > > Second, if that was solved, I think it would be pretty simple to make > > SARE a sub project of SpamAssassin itself, and it would then be possible > > to use the Apache servers/services, as well as making it easier to move > > rules from SARE into the mainline SpamAssassin releases. > > Yes, good point. > > > Just a note, part of the impetus for SA to move to the ASF was to get > > away from SF and the major issues they had (mailing list lag, cvs repos > > out of sync, etc.) > > I thought that this had been sorted out in the meantime? The SF download > mirrors would offer a nice bandwidth boost... What about freshmeat.net, > do you have any experience with it? Freshmeat doesn't actually host anything, as far as I know -- they just provide a kind of links page to point at the "real" download locations. - --j. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh CVS iD8DBQFA/VvHQTcbUG5Y7woRAuTDAJ9cv1vrslyB/PY9hDOgOoaeFjpQrQCgqQn4 2QDwktP67ItaGOFD0JqxjGE= =IUBS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
