- From: Andreas Kuckartz <A.Kuckartz@ping.de>
- Date: 5 Jun 2013 10:26:47 +0200
- To: "Jeff Jaffe" <jeff@w3.org>
- Cc: "Norbert Bollow" <nb@bollow.ch>, public-restrictedmedia@w3.org
Jeff Jaffe: >> If you find that a specification is not implementable in GPL, it >> probably is not implementable in open source software at all. > > I need further clarification. > > EME, for example, might not be implementable in GPLv3. But I wasn't > aware that it was not implementable in other open source licenses such > as Apache or MPL (or even GPLv2 for that matter). What am I missing? CDMs which are relevant for the proponents of EME can not be implemented as Open Source. EME without such CDMs is useless for the intended purpose of EME. We should not discuss implementing useless software using Open Source licenses. It does not help if someone implements anything using an Open Source license when other legal restrictions (such as NDAs) prevent him or her from providing the source code to others without conditions in addition to those contained in the Open Source license. Such conditions might be legally compatible with some "liberal" Open Source licenses, but some conditions are not legally compatible with GPL3. Cheers, Andreas
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