Re: Restriction on the right to modify (Re: Comments on draft-ietf-ipr-outbound-rights-02.txt)

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb at cs.columbia.edu>]

On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 20:31:56 +0100
Simon Josefsson <simon at josefsson.org> wrote:

> Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald at alvestrand.no> writes:
> 
> > WRT the specific instance of "share-alike": Everything I've seen
> > indicates that mandating share-alike for modifications to IETF code
> > would be massively controversial.
> 
> I think the rules should allow WGs to make such a decision on a
> case-by-case basis.  If the argument is that for patents, WGs should
> be permitted to make decisions on a case-by-case basis, I believe WGs
> should be permitted to make decisions to use material licensed under
> the GPL or similar in a document.  If we trust WGs to make the proper
> decisions regarding patents, why don't we do so for copyrights?
> 

For patents, the WG members are making individual decisions about
whether they, their employers, or (enough of) the community would
license the patent (or perhaps collectively choose to ignore it).  For
RFCs, the question is granting rights to the IETF's output.

Note that I'm not taking a position; I'm just explaining the
distinction as I see it.



		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb

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