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A comment on Tutanota: GPLv3-licensed, end-to-end encrypted email.

Re:Tutanota: GPLv3-licensed, end-to-end encrypted email by legulere on Wednesday December 03, 2014 @05:48AM (#8692968)
I don't know what people think when they put their code under GPL (especially v3) when they want to make a better version of an already open standard.

One reason why tcp ip was so successful was that everybody could copy the implementation from BSD into their product.

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Re:Tutanota: GPLv3-licensed, end-to-end encrypted email by icebraining on Wednesday December 03, 2014 @07:51AM (#8693425)
Probably because they want people to use their own systems and apps.
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