Is Sender ID Dead in the Water? - No MARID Working Group Consensus (Groklaw)

Is Sender ID Dead in the Water? - No MARID Working Group Consensus (Groklaw)

Posted Sep 9, 2004 20:50 UTC (Thu) by nigelm (subscriber, #622)
In reply to: Is Sender ID Dead in the Water? - No MARID Working Group Consensus (Groklaw) by NAR
Parent article: Is Sender ID Dead in the Water? - No MARID Working Group Consensus (Groklaw)

> even if postfix, exim, qmail, etc. won't support Sender ID,
> there might be some "unofficial" patches to "fix" them.

The legal position of these might be very iffy - the person producing the patches would need to sign licensing agreements with Microsoft, as would all the recipients in this case. You would not be able to make the patches GPL due to the additional restrictions provisions, so the patched version would not be distributable (at least in the case of exim and courier). Personally I would not sign this sort of faustian deal with MS since you would be skating on the very edge of the licensing to start with - and they have more lawyers and more money than me.

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