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On 01/14/2013 01:10 AM, Eggert, Lars wrote:
Hi,
On Jan 14, 2013, at 10:08, Marc Petit-Huguenin <petithug(_at_)acm(_dot_)org>
wrote:
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.
I have worked for employers before where reading GPL code was considered
highly problematic.
Sure, if the IETF is part of your job, and your employer prevents you to read
GPL code (or read Spinoza, or sing under the shower), then do not do it for
the IETF. Now if your employer does not regulate what you do on your own
time, then there is no problem here.
If someone said to writers to never read any book that is still copyrighted
because they might be contaminated and that may somehow induce them to
plagiarize without knowing it, how do you think they would react? There is no
difference with software - excepted that there a lot more people that would
like us to think that software is different.
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Marc Petit-Huguenin
Email: marc(_at_)petit-huguenin(_dot_)org
Blog: http://blog.marc.petit-huguenin.org
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