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Re: bettering open source involvement

Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> Wed, 03 August 2016 02:05 UTC

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>> There are a number of advantages otherwise to GPL. 
> There are. But if the IETF wants to encourage code that anybody can
> study and/or borrow, GPL is not the way to go.

gpl would be good for adding a poison pill to an implementation a la
ipr on a draft.

randy

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