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

[Brian E Carpenter <brc at zurich.ibm.com>]

(Sorry, this gets into inbound rights but that seems to be our
problem here.) I'm beginning to wonder if we shouldn't be rather
hard headed and say to authors:

Code embedded in IETF Contributions MUST NOT be subject to
any conditions that prevent the IETF from granting unrestricted
rights to use, republish or modify it. It is the Contributor's
responsibility to ensure that contributed code is free
of such restrictions.

IMHO if someone puts the cart before the horse by putting
code under an irrevocable license before contributing it
to the IETF, they should build their own clean room and rewrite
the code for us.

After the code has already become an IETF Contribution, a copy
of it could be put under any license; we wouldn't care.

    Brian

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