Re: Outgoing section 5.5 and draft-josefsson

[Frank Ellermann <nobody at xyzzy.claranet.de>]

David B Harrington wrote:

> I think allowing contributors to copyright their contributions is
> simply not a useful way to go, even if the contribution is a section
> of code.

+1

> Viral licenses should be treated the way any other license is treated
> by the IETF - the owner of the material can declare the licensing
> terms on the IETF's IPR page, and the WG can decide whether to accept
> the licensing terms in the draft.

I'd like to use CC-BY-SA and be done with it, and I think (IANAL) that
this is a superset of what the IETF needs.  Some draft submission tool
could automatically convert CC-BY-SA into RFC 3978 etc. boilerplates,
and if necessary derive a corresponding IPR statement, if "share alike"
is considered as "viral".

Those IPR notes are quite incomplete, nothing about the wannabe-patent
for RFCs 4405 up to 4407, nothing about the real patent for SHA-256 and
longer, nothing about the licence about conforming SHA implementations,
and many RFCs already depend on SHA instead of offering a choice.

Frank



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