Re: IEEE on oui.txt and iab.txt
On Friday 16 August 2013, Francesco Poli wrote:
> ....
> In other words, they do *not* want anyone else to re-distribute those
> files, not even in unmodified form!
> Or am I misinterpreting something?
Yeap... that's what they say. I pretty sure that would be impossible to hold
that in court.
> What a mess!
> You should really explain the IEEE that they are heavily hurting
> several Free Software projects by forbidding the re-distribution and
> the modification of those two files!
> Please try and persuade them that those two files should be published
> in a DFSG-free manner...
They don't look like people that negotiate this kind of thing by mail...
Cheers,
/luciano
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