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List:       spamassassin-devel
Subject:    Re: svn commit: r156102 - in spamassassin/trunk: lib/Mail/SpamAssassin/Plugin/Razor2.pm rules/50_sco
From:       "Malte S. Stretz" <msquadrat.nospamplease () gmx ! net>
Date:       2005-03-04 10:52:50
Message-ID: 200503041152.51308 () malte ! stretz ! eu ! org
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On Friday 04 March 2005 11:41 CET Daniel Quinlan wrote:
> Sidney Markowitz <sidney@sidney.com> writes:
> > Code being free but charging for service is in the best tradition of
> > Free and of Open Source software. Redhat's up2date is open source code
> > (GPL?), using it to access their server possibly costs money. Email
> > client software can be free while the account on the mailhost it talks
> > to costs money.
>
> Yeah, I'm not quite there.  I'm looking at what we ship (option-wise as
> well as the code) by default.  I want sites, commercial entities,
> etc. to be able to look at our license (and the license of dependencies
> like the checksum components, Perl modules, etc.) and not worry about
> some external usage license.  That's not a promise, but if we know about
> it, we should aim to be completely free.

+1 -- and enabling Razor after installation is not so complicated after all.

>[...]
> > If the razor services are free to anyone who has not paid for the
> > client, that is even more liberal than most service-based systems.
>
> Except for DCC, Pyzor, SpamCop, NJABL, SORBS, SpamHaus, RFC-Ignorant,
> CompleteWhois, DSBL, Security Sage, Bonded Sender, Habeas, or IADB.
>
> All of them except for Razor.  Oops.  ;-)

Hmmm... I don't think SpamCop, BondedSender and Habeas fit in that list :)

>[...]
> Commenting out the plugin in 3.1 where people are going to want to check
> init.pre anyway, is not a huge deal, and it gives everyone an
> opportunity to evaluate whether or not they are eligible to use Razor2
> before using it.

+1 again :)

Cheers,
Malte

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