DomainKeys license followup

[Tom Brown <to...@gmail.com>]

Hi All!

I haven't seen any action on legal discuss for a while regarding the
licensing required to include the implementation of the domain keys
standard. As I recall, the final word was for Apache to ask Yahoo for
a specialized license...

Is that the current status of the DK implementation license? Is there
much hope of having it included directly, or would JAMES be best
served by having this DK implementation released under the GPL...?

Thanks again!

Tom Brown

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Re: DomainKeys license followup

[robert burrell donkin <ro...@gmail.com>]

On 1/23/07, Stefano Bagnara <ap...@bago.org> wrote:
> Hi Tom,
>
> first of all thanks to you for keeping track of this issue.
>
> As far as I understood from this thread:
> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-legal-discuss/200701.mbox/browser
> "Yahoo! DomainKeys Patent License"
>
> ASF is trying to get in touch with Yahoo to ask them a minor change to
> the license to make it clearer and compatible with ASLv2.
>
> While we wait I think that the best option is for you to publish the
> code under the same double license (GPL + Yahoo DomainKey Patent
> License).

if it's double licensed then BSD or ASL + DomainKey Patent would make
more sense. AIUI GPL'd implementations do not require the patent
license.

> Unfortunately we can't host, neither bundle such code until
> legal issues are resolved, but users could download the mailet and use it.

the free software foundation believes that the apache license is
incompatible with the GPL. so any combined work (james+domain keys)
would be undistributable. but yes, users could download the mailet and
create their own private version of james.

- robert

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Re: DomainKeys license followup

[Stefano Bagnara <ap...@bago.org>]

Hi Tom,

first of all thanks to you for keeping track of this issue.

As far as I understood from this thread:
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-legal-discuss/200701.mbox/browser
"Yahoo! DomainKeys Patent License"

ASF is trying to get in touch with Yahoo to ask them a minor change to 
the license to make it clearer and compatible with ASLv2.

While we wait I think that the best option is for you to publish the 
code under the same double license (GPL + Yahoo DomainKey Patent 
License). Unfortunately we can't host, neither bundle such code until 
legal issues are resolved, but users could download the mailet and use it.

I would suggest to make sure you keep the ownership of the code for a 
while (do not accept patches/contribution) under the GPL so that once 
the legal issues will be solved it will be possible for you to grant 
inclusion in ASF.

I know that this licensing issue is a pita for developers, and I 
appreciate your efforts!

Stefano

Tom Brown wrote:
> Hi All!
> 
> I haven't seen any action on legal discuss for a while regarding the
> licensing required to include the implementation of the domain keys
> standard. As I recall, the final word was for Apache to ask Yahoo for
> a specialized license...
> 
> Is that the current status of the DK implementation license? Is there
> much hope of having it included directly, or would JAMES be best
> served by having this DK implementation released under the GPL...?
> 
> Thanks again!
> 
> Tom Brown



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