On Thursday 05 February 2009 07:55, Daniel Cheng wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 3:10 PM, xor <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: [email protected]
> >> [mailto:[email protected]] 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.

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