Re: Patent Licenses for Code in RFCs?

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

On 2007-01-17 04:25, Contreras, Jorge wrote:
> > > The licenses under 3.3.a (other than 3.3.a.E, see below)
> > > do NOT grant any rights to implement IETF standards
> > > in products.  IETF Contributors are NOT required to grant patent
> > > licenses to implementers.  This has always been IETF's policy, and
> > > there is no ambiguity here.
> > And that is why this is, and always has been, a policy issue. 
>
> Larry is right.  This is a "policy" question for the group.  I can
> tell you what the current rules say, and can help write
> new rules if there is consensus to change them (and if the chairs ask
> me to).
>
> So far, Larry and Simon have voiced a desire to
> change IETF policy so as to grant implementers a patent 
> license to use code that's embedded in RFCs (oversimplifying,
> of course).

Granting rights that you don't have remains tricky,
as far as I understand these things  :-)

    Brian

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