Debian, Apache, and others have issued statements concerning “Sender ID”. ¹
The current Microsoft Royalty-Free Sender ID Patent License Agreement terms are a barrier to any ASF project which wants to implement Sender ID. We believe the current license is generally incompatible with open source, contrary to the practice of open Internet standards, and specifically incompatible with the Apache License 2.0. Therefore, we will not implement or deploy Sender ID under the current license terms.
There’s a whole more about the specific points that are deemed unacceptable, and it ends with some criticism of the IETF:
[...] no company should be permitted IP rights over core Internet infrastructure. We believe the IETF needs to revamp its IPR policies to ensure that the core Internet infrastructure remain unencumbered.
It seems that this wiki is going to be used as the working platform for our Aktion gegen Softwarepatente in der Schweiz.
Aktion gegen Softwarepatente in der Schweiz
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