[Spambayes] Spam Bayes use in a corporation

[Coe, Bob]

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. 

Bob 

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From: spambayes-bounces+rcoe=cambridgema.gov at python.org [mailto:spambayes-bounces+rcoe=cambridgema.gov at python.org]On Behalf Of Michael C. Neel
Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 8:39 AM
To: Brent Bertram
Cc: Bertram, Brent; spambayes at python.org
Subject: Re: [Spambayes] Spam Bayes use in a corporation


In the opensource world, who you are means nothing.  Check out the link Tim pointed out, www.opensource.org 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.

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.

Mike

On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 08:22, Brent Bertram wrote: 

 
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. 

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From:  <mailto:neel at mediapulse.com> Michael C. Neel
To:  <mailto:tim.one at comcast.net> Tim Peters
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Subject: RE: [Spambayes] Spam Bayes use in a corporation



The PSF license SpamBayes is released under does not require that.  


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.

Mike 

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