Re: IETF and open source license compatibility

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb at cs.columbia.edu>]

On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:38:44 +0100
Simon Josefsson <simon at josefsson.org> wrote:

> The discussion started by Stephan suggesting that free software
> authors publish their work as free standards in the IETF.  My point
> was that since the IETF disallow publishing standards under a license
> that is compatible with free software licensing (e.g., allows
> modification), it is not possible for free software authors to do
> this.  Thus, to me, this discussion is not related to comments in
> source code at all.

My understanding of IETF policy is that the IETF will publish I-Ds that
are in the public domain.  Nothing is freer than that.  You're
perfectly free to put your text in the public domain before submitting
it for publication as an RFC.

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb