On Thursday 05 February 2009 13:52, Matthew Toseland wrote:
> On Thursday 05 February 2009 07:55, Daniel Cheng wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 3:10 PM, xor <xor at gmx.li> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >> -----Original Message-----
> > >> From: devl-bounces at freenetproject.org
> > >> [mailto:devl-bounces at freenetproject.org] On Behalf Of Colin Davis
> > >> Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 7:50 AM
> > >> To: Discussion of development issues
> > >> Subject: Re: [freenet-dev] Good news: WoT/Freetalk as my
> > >> bachelor thesis
> > >>
> > >> I know that there have been various proposals from freenet
> > >> message systems to work together; I would hope that this
> > >> wouldn't encourage an even-more closed development process?
> > >>
> > >
> > > I think I'll have to add one more thing: This will make
> > > the development process more transparent because the
> > > requirements for a bachelor thesis are like:
> > > documentation, documentation, documentation.
> > >
> > 
> > make sure you have the right to release the code in GPL..
> > Some university have ridiculous "IP" policy.
> 
> This is even more important because combining GPL and proprietary code leads 
> to a non-distributible result i.e. if the uni requires ownership of the 
code, 
> p0s will have to rewrite it all.

Doh, not thinking, he can license it to himself. But regardless, it won't be 
much use if it's closed source.
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