Re: IETF and open source license compatibility

[Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter at gmail.com>]

On 2009-02-13 16:47, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> 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.

Or afterwards, since the license a contributor grants to the
IETF Trust is non-exclusive. So contributing these words to the IETF
does not affect in any way my ability to do as I wish with them
after hitting the Send button.

    Brian