Re: The story of the base64 encoding document (RFC 4648)

[Harald Alvestrand <harald at alvestrand.no>]

Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Instead I created my own implementation based on parts from the best
> implementations that I could find.  I chose the GPL for the license,
> because nobody paid me to work on this, and I find the GPL the most
> appropriate for work that I do on my spare time.  That choice allowed
> me to base my work on other GPL'd code as well, which was another
> motivation for me to use the GPL.  That also enabled me to get code
> review and improvements from C89 and POSIX portability experts around
> the world, since the code was included in the "gnulib" portability
> library.
Query: What was your reason to not dual-license the code?

If "based on" means "copied pieces from", I understand it, but this term 
can have multiple meanings.

Harald

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