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Re: [Autoconf] Licensing scheme for draft-ietf-autoconf-adhoc-addr-model-02.txt

Henning Rogge <henning.rogge@fkie.fraunhofer.de> Wed, 17 February 2010 15:02 UTC

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On Wed February 17 2010 15:51:37 Alexandru Petrescu wrote:
> HEllo AUTOCONFers,
> 
> About a non-technical matter of draft-ietf-autoconf-adhoc-addr-model.
> 
> Its boilerplate currently says "Code Components extracted from this
> document must include Simplified BSD License...".
> 
> I disagree with it for three reasons.  First and foremost I do not want
> Code Components extracted from this document to include that license,
> but another one.  E.g. if linux kernel implements it then GPL is more
> suitable.  Second, if there are no Code Components then it would be
> useless to talk about Code Components.
You can get from "simplified BSD" (2-clause BSD) to GPL. The other way around 
is not possible.

See http://tinyurl.com/ykwyud4 (Link to wikipedia).

Forcing GPL would mean that the code fragments cannot be included into 
commercial software, which contradicts the purpose of the IETF RFCs.

Henning Rogge

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