Re: Improvements to section 5.{1,2} in outbound-rights

[Mukundan R <rmukundan at midascomm.com>]

Hi all,
certain sections snipped. comments inline.

> > Simon Josefsson wrote:
> >    
> Yup.  As instructions to lawyers, adding the word "distribute" is
> probably not being verbose, but clear.  I'd even prefer if we'd more
> of the terms that Ted mentioned as well:
>
>  "copy, extract, distribute, and translate all text; copy, extract,
>  distribute, run, derive any information content needed to perform
>  the operations above, and modify (both to accomplish the rights
>  preceding and to ensure broad distribution".
>  
Do we need to warn that the derivative work(in whatever form it is) need 
not be on par with the original? like what is given below in a previous 
mail of simon:

> A concrete example: I took the Punycode code in RFC 3492 and adapted
> it to the coding style I use in LibIDN.  If RFC 3492 would have been
> licensed under RFC 2026, RFC 3978 or under a license that only permits
> "translations", this would not have been possible.  Fortunately, Adam
> Costello wisely placed RFC 3492 under a liberal license:
>
>   Regarding this entire document or any portion of it (including the
>   pseudocode and C code), the author makes no guarantees and is not
>   responsible for any damage resulting from its use.  The author grants
>   irrevocable permission to anyone to use, modify, and distribute it in
>   any way that does not diminish the rights of anyone else to use,
>   modify, and distribute it, provided that redistributed derivative
>   works do not contain misleading author or version information.
>   Derivative works need not be licensed under similar terms.
<<end of snip>>

<<another snip>>

> Makes sense.  How about this:
>
>    All such quotations SHOULD be attributed properly to the IETF and
>    the IETF document from which they are taken.  That means that there
>    should be a strong recommendation that all such quotations be
>    attributed, but it cannot be a legal requirement for being able
>    to quote a document.
>
> /Simon
>  
<<end of snip>>

How about indicating that only the "moral rights" are being stressed 
during this attribution?

Thanks and Regards
Mukundan

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