[License-discuss] Why CAVO Recommends GPLv3

[Gervase Markham]

On 17/11/14 15:02, Tzeng, Nigel H. wrote:
> As long as the core vote counting and verification bits are open source
> and can be externally verified then one vendor providing more vote
> planning aids, analytics, financial tracking and collaboration tools are
> part of their comprehensive suite as a competitive advantage doesn¹t
> bother me overly much.  They do have to make money somehow and have some
> kind of positive ROI for developing software systems.

It depends how it was designed, but none of that would necessarily fall
under GPLv3 just because the software which handled the votes did.

> That it¹s open source is a false sense of security.

Not false. It's a necessary condition for security but not a sufficient one.

> simply was never met.  I would rather see voting software that has passed
> a rigorous IV&V process and formal proof of correctness for key bits.

These two things are not mutually exclusive.

Gerv