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Re: bettering open source involvement

Riccardo Bernardini <framefritti@gmail.com> Tue, 02 August 2016 09:03 UTC

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From: Riccardo Bernardini <framefritti@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2016 11:03:18 +0200
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Subject: Re: bettering open source involvement
To: Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie>
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On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 10:56 AM, Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie>
wrote:

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> So yes, BSD is better in the IETF context, but GPL, while problematic
> for some, is far from useless.
>

+1
I would also add that GPL'ed code could provide  a second independent
implementation, useful to check for interoperability issues.


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