On 30.03.2017 18:02, Dave Cridland wrote:
> On 30 March 2017 at 16:00, Florian Schmaus <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 30.03.2017 15:54, Remko Tronçon wrote:
>>> On 30 March 2017 at 15:10, Andreas Straub <[email protected]
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>     You raise a valid point. I agree that this construction seems
>>>     cleaner from a purely theoretical standpoint.
>>>
>>> Permissible implementations of XEdDSA may or may not emerge, but as long
>>> as it is not something available, you're taking a risk of making a
>>> standard that will never be adopted.
>>> …
>>> I agree that losing the audit is a downside, but I'm not sure if the
>>> alternative is realistic if you want your XEP to take off.
>>
>> I'm under the impression that OMEMO already took off. So I don't share
>> the concern that libsignal being GPL hinders adoption in any way.
> 
> The XSF does open standards, available to any implementer without
> restriction, not just GPL software.

Erm? Nobody is disputing that. OMEMO is and will be an open standard
based on other open standards [1].

If I understood Remko correctly he is arguing that because there are no
non-GPL XEdDSA implementations OMEMO will probably not see any adoption.
Which I think is not true as the reality shows.

Please correct me if I'm wrong.

- Florian

1: XEdDSA is an open standard available at
https://whispersystems.org/docs/specifications/xeddsa/, as Daniel
pointed out.

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