Re: Patented RFC Code

[Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at nic.fr>]

On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 07:32:40AM -0500,
 Contreras, Jorge <Jorge.Contreras at wilmerhale.com> wrote 
 a message of 19 lines which said:

> > "Can I take code from a RFC and use it in free software?"
> 
> Under the current rules, if it is patented, 

Patented where? Software patents do not exist on my side of the world.

> The idea being that, if you want to use code from an RFC, you should
> be able to determine whether the Contributor claims patent rights in
> it.  If there is no disclosure of patent rights, then it would not
> be unreasonable to assume that the Contributor does NOT have such
> patent rights.

I did not specially mention the patent issue. Even if there is no
patent, I cannot use at will software written by someone else unless
there is a *specific* authorization to do so. This is this
authorization that we miss.




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