Re: [parchive-devel] Par2 Par3 comments.

[Michael N. <mic...@gm...>]

On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 11:18:21AM +0200, Kristian Trenskow wrote:
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> I have no personal interest in the licensing choice of PAR3. I agree that LPGL is sufficient, but I have been following the mailinglist for some years now, and I really believe, that if you want to extend PARs popularity beyond usenet, you should consider another license.
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> As of today PAR2 is more or less a Usenet technology, but it's practical in so many other applications. I think the ISO standardization process - which was initiated for PAR2 - is a hugely great idea. I really believe you - the Parchive team - should aim at it again, once the PAR3 specifications is written, implemented and tested.
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> I mean, how would you feel, if - as an example - NASA adopted it, and suddenly your technology was orbiting the earth? NASA already uses a modified Reed-Solomon algorithm for transferring data from space to earth. The PAR3 technology would fit in their pants if they could freely adopt it, and use it for data transfer. I know this is a far fetched example, but I do believe that governmental institutions like the military, would have far more confidence in using a technology like PAR3, if it was standardized and open.

NASA can internally use GPL software as they see fit, they would have
no obligation to distribute source.
Only if they distribute a binary to someone are they required to
also make the source of the whole program available to her.
note, IANAL of course so just my oppinon


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> And that's not GPL. GPL is bad for technology, because - as you said - it forces people to redistribute any changes as source code. BSD is more lightheaded, and make people able to apply the technologies to whatever purpose they might have.

btw, did you ever read the GPL?


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