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<DIV><SPAN class=745094811-24052004><FONT face="Century Schoolbook"
color=#800000 size=2>I see. I didn't realize that you're a lawyer. Naturally
I'll defer to your superior expertise.
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Michael C. Neel
[mailto:neel@mediapulse.com]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, May 22, 2004 5:19
PM<BR><B>To:</B> Coe, Bob<BR><B>Cc:</B>
spambayes@Python.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Spambayes] Spam Bayes use in a
corporation<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Pardon me for saying, but that's the most
off-base I've ever read, lol. It's clear you're not up on the claim (or
the implied claims that is) of the SCO case. Second you're also not
clear on how opensource software works. Last, if a lawer reads the
python license and thinks the SCO case will have an affect on that in the
slightest, you need to get a new lawer.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Mike</FONT></DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=rcoe@CambridgeMA.GOV href="mailto:rcoe@CambridgeMA.GOV">Coe,
Bob</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=neel@mediapulse.com
href="mailto:neel@mediapulse.com">Michael C. Neel</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B> <A title=spambayes@Python.org
href="mailto:spambayes@Python.org">spambayes@Python.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, May 22, 2004 4:33
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> RE: [Spambayes] Spam Bayes use
in a corporation</DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=342090220-22052004><FONT face="Century Schoolbook"
color=#800000 size=2>What their lawyer thinks may be influenced by fear
of the outcome of the SCO suit against IBM. If I'm not mistaken, SCO has
already begun trying to squeeze royalties out of end users of Linux for
alleged copyright violations of which the end users are admittedly
blameless. If SCO wins (and in today's legal and political climate
anything is possible), a lot of people may begin to rethink the
value of open source licenses. I realize that Python isn't Linux, but almost
any open source development has some roots in the Unix world if you
look deep enough. I'm not scared to use Spambayes, but I guess I could
understand the reluctance of someone who is.
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size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
spambayes-bounces+rcoe=cambridgema.gov@python.org
[mailto:spambayes-bounces+rcoe=cambridgema.gov@python.org]<B>On Behalf Of
</B>Michael C. Neel<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, May 20, 2004 8:39
AM<BR><B>To:</B> Brent Bertram<BR><B>Cc:</B> Bertram, Brent;
spambayes@python.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Spambayes] Spam Bayes use in
a corporation<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>In the opensource world, who you are
means nothing. Check out the link Tim pointed out, <A
href="http://www.opensource.org">www.opensource.org</A> and read the open
source definition, which defines what a license must do and not do to be
open source, and you'll also find a list (with the psl included) of one's
that meet this list.<BR><BR>And then, if you guys are that big you've
probably got a legal dept, so take one of those guys out to lunch and ask
him to look at it (it's only a page or two), and see what he
thinks.<BR><BR>Mike<BR><BR>On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 08:22, Brent Bertram
wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE="CITE"><FONT color=#737373><I> </FONT><BR><FONT
color=#737373 size=2>Just want to remind everyone that we are a
corporation, our software person says being a corporation changes
things. What is your experience with Open Source and
Corporations? I think they have their mind stuck on
Freeware.</FONT>
<BLOCKQUOTE><FONT color=#737373>----- Original Message -----
<BR><B>From:</B> </FONT><A
href="mailto:neel@mediapulse.com"><U>Michael C. Neel</U></A><BR><FONT
color=#737373><B>To:</B> </FONT><A
href="mailto:tim.one@comcast.net"><U>Tim Peters</U></A><BR><FONT
color=#737373><B>Cc:</B> </FONT><A
href="mailto:bbertram@mts.net"><U>'Brent Bertram'</U></A><FONT
color=#737373> ; </FONT><A
href="mailto:spambayes@python.org"><U>spambayes@python.org</U></A><BR><FONT
color=#737373><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, May 20, 2004 7:06
AM<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: [Spambayes] Spam Bayes use in a
corporation<BR><BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE="CITE"><PRE>The PSF license SpamBayes is released under does not require that. </PRE></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>I
should have taken a moment to see which license was used before
posting =p. I really don't get into all the variations that
exist, to me there are two types of opensource licenses, GNU and BSD,
and SpamBayes falls under the BSD. Brent, you should be able to
shed off any license worries here, you won't be required to do much of
anything except have a spam free inbox, lol.<BR><BR>Mike
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