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Re: [Cfrg] RG Last Call - draft-irtf-cfrg-ocb-00

Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> Mon, 11 February 2013 11:18 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Cfrg] RG Last Call - draft-irtf-cfrg-ocb-00
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Ted Krovetz <ted@krovetz.net> writes:

>> practically unusable in any serious product (commercial or
> otherwise) because of its licensing terms.
>
> I certainly hope that we can convince you that this is not true.

The simplest way to do that is to change the license.

As far as I understand, the current license fails to meet the open
source definition used by OSI, in particular the "No Discrimination
Against Fields of Endeavor" paragraph:

  http://opensource.org/osd

Thus, and also as far as I understand, I could not implement OCB in some
of my free software packages, and have that be accepted by organisations
that require OSI-compatible licensing.

To me, anything that restrict significant implementers ability to use a
specification is a serious problem, to the point that it may be better
to find and use another specification.

Thefore I don't find it a good use of everyone's collective time to
publish specifications that aren't useful to as many as possible,
especially if there are alternatives.

/Simon

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