Re: Outgoing section 5.5 and draft-josefsson (Re: San Diego meeting slot)

["Joel M. Halpern" <joel at stevecrocker.com>]

Well, I sure understood the rough consensus of the working group to 
be "everyone can use the code any way they want."

I originally was in favor of a more restricted view, and came around 
to the unlimited perspective.

I would be very uncomfortable if every author could slap any 
restrictions they want on the code in RFCs.
That would seem to distinctly fail the agreed goal.

And that's why 5.5 is written the way it is, I think.
We want to allow other licenses.  But those licenses can not prevent 
people from using code in RFCs according to the IETF goal.
And, according to the WG agreeement, we are not trying to craft legal 
language in the RFC.

Yours,
Joel M. Halpern

At 06:37 AM 10/5/2006, Harald Alvestrand wrote:

> > Finally, I think section 5.3 is wrong to imply that "everyone can use
> > the code" is a required goal.  It is certainly a good goal, but
> > sometimes the only options are to either not include code at all, or
> > include code with a license that results in not everyone being able to
> > use it.  In those situations, I think the choice is simple.
> That seems like a good basis for updating 5.3 - after all, we're 
> trying to document what we want to accomplish....


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