-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 01/14/2013 01:10 AM, Eggert, Lars wrote: > Hi, > > On Jan 14, 2013, at 10:08, Marc Petit-Huguenin <petithug@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> I think that you underestimate the IETF community, who certainly know how >> to see through all the FUD about the GPL. Sure it may be a bad idea to >> literally copy 300 lines of GPL code in your code, but that does not >> apply to what we are talking about, which is reading code. > > I have worked for employers before where reading GPL code was considered > highly problematic. Sure, if the IETF is part of your job, and your employer prevents you to read GPL code (or read Spinoza, or sing under the shower), then do not do it for the IETF. Now if your employer does not regulate what you do on your own time, then there is no problem here. If someone said to writers to never read any book that is still copyrighted because they might be contaminated and that may somehow induce them to plagiarize without knowing it, how do you think they would react? There is no difference with software - excepted that there a lot more people that would like us to think that software is different. - -- Marc Petit-Huguenin Email: marc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Blog: http://blog.marc.petit-huguenin.org Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/petithug -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJQ89D3AAoJECnERZXWan7EticQAIXvbyfRD/LX9YT+/SiW21Wp NBuVji+aAPyGaKvwpQ+G1pqrp74hUk2ylvmqOGi9JWc0/E3H/dhyBbksvEHrbyY8 1+4fGKtOAUkAW97IaBaWRQT9jbo7w9TytRVz8o3+Gh0b4qTmTHzBh76zXjS5v2RM qRHFcCnSitXMUV4Y+PjtP8ZjpTd/J4Ahwsw9xa07WeNQIrfQ3PHYX8tC2xrrAuHm 1on3qI5FuumDjatWwNMhAb+/Sm0XLOiRJifjQxENOfOPW4JtkEcqi9Us3+7fNFMe Z06qtrCC2oflODJw+7xZwguIJe8V+Eu8ea3wNnVaa3tqqBw+twZT/vhBSehrCgrU hTSvj9zphutbRK/1xvEkMwggYhUPrwH7GTNKrANYYu8xb9O2MD2OB2OdrwtX4Aax Z11lBsY7GC0Vum3X/aa+3UWu2cyiBDcDJym+pOvzOYPGJ7aNpEAdlRIYVdE7KV1t 1n7SrK960uX2WE9VgFdWptfm9QXGDjW417PDxlunNUzlY6Xb/C2uaQuuR6gZG7Vi P3I+Yiz2LvioE3ZwTPDSboLPgbw29g3oEkCBjyfP14KjP2F8MTUfI3S5vTl0ZrAh RaqkdT6sfREVxFFszyeAhDDAcXGkzvkZd1wgHwfw1HcKLlTUH6QNPVT5OGsA3DLQ 7CYGpSyyjONrEgZqxBXD =/ZJe -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----