On Wednesday 24 October 2007 06:50, Norbert Bollow wrote: > 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? > No. My point was that for the IETF, interoperability is the goal, not some general statement about goodness of Free software. In many/most/maybe all cases, this will require any IPR restrictions to be GPL compatible. Scott K _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf