Scott Kitterman <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > And that will never fly (IANAL) with the GPL and so here we sit at an > impasse again. So either a GPL implementation is important to > interoperability in a given space or it is not. If it is important to > interoperabilty, then this is a showstopper. If not, maybe not. Do you have any specific example of an internet standard for which you think that lack of GPL-compatible licensing of any (perhaps just hypothetical) relevant patents would not cause interoperability serious problems if the patent holder chose to aggressive enforce the terms of that non-GPL-compatible patent license? Greetings, Norbert. -- Norbert Bollow <nb@xxxxxxxxx> http://Norbert.ch President of the Swiss Internet User Group SIUG http://SIUG.ch Working on establishing a non-corrupt and truly /open/ international standards organization http://OpenISO.org _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf