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On 01/11/2013 01:02 PM, Stephan Wenger wrote:
Hi,
Sorry for replying to this "advise to secretariat" thread and not to the
ietf-announce thread--I'm not subscribed to ietf-announce. I have three
comments, and regret that I have not followed all of the discussions
regarding this draft before, so please advise if those comments have
already been raised and/or resolved.
First, I'm glad that the direct preferences of open source implementations
over implementations compliant with other business models are mostly gone.
Still, there is one reference that worries me, and that is the reference to
GPLv3 code as an "extreme" in section 2.1. Yes, the GPL (and similar
copyleft licenses) is an extreme, at least in terms of open source
licensing models. However, it is not an extreme of openness or
accessibility of the source code for review by WG chair, AD, and community.
I would hope that we are all aware that many (most?) commercial software
developers, by company policy or common sense, avoid looking at GPL-ed
code, out of fear of contamination of their own closed source code. GPL-ed
code is, therefore, inaccessible for verification by a large part of the
IETF community,
Commercial software developers can do whatever they want, how idiotic it is
(see Oracle vs Google), that does not make them an example to follow.
I think that you underestimate the IETF community, who certainly know how to
see through all the FUD about the GPL. Sure it may be a bad idea to literally
copy 300 lines of GPL code in your code, but that does not apply to what we
are talking about, which is reading code.
and does not serve as a good example for "openness", which is how I
interpret the spectrum laid out in section 2.1. A better example would be
source code that is almost universally accessible. The extreme here would
be source code in the public domain. Somewhat less convincing but perhaps a
bit more realistically, source code under a BSD-style license like the one
the IETF Trust is using.
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Marc Petit-Huguenin
Email: marc(_at_)petit-huguenin(_dot_)org
Blog: http://blog.marc.petit-huguenin.org
Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/petithug
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