Friday, June 16, 2006

Sendmail Developing Open-Source Plans

Tom Espiner writes on C|Net News:

Sendmail is close to releasing some of its propietary e-mail software under an open-source license.

The company has a long involvement in the collaborative software movement. It sells proprietary software that works with a popular open-source component, also called Sendmail, used to transfer e-mail from one server to another.

It hinted back in April that it may release some of its tools to open source, and Eric Allman, the original developer of the software and Sendmail's chief science officer, gave an update on the plans this week.

More here.

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