I appreciate NTRU (quantum computer-proof public key crypto) released as open source, but GPL crypto libraries (also PolarSSL) are kinda :(
@wwhyte @0xabad1dea still seems kinda weird though? Can't you arbitrarily change that policy later?
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@bascule@0xabad1dea Our legal advice is that it's very hard to reverse that decision, particularly from the enforcement point of view... -
@bascule@0xabad1dea ... if we changed & tried to enforce, dev could say they wrote their product during GPL phase. Hard to prove otherwise. -
@bascule@0xabad1dea The current team obviously backs GPL, but if mgmt or ownership changed GPL would be very hard to change. -
@wwhyte@0xabad1dea well it's not really GPL that's the problem, but guarantees about irrevocably granting the rights to GPL projects -
@bascule@0xabad1dea Right, so something more like the first sentence of the MSFT statement? (Plus all the rest which is sadly necessary) -
@bascule@0xabad1dea There's no reason why we can't do that -- I'll raise with the team and we should be able to put that through. -
@wwhyte@0xabad1dea awesome! -
@bascule@0xabad1dea Emails sent internally, will let you know what happens, ping me in a week if you see nothing. - 2 more replies
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