Re: Section 6.5: Additional Licenses for IETF Contributions

[Don Armstrong <don at debian.org>]

On Mon, 07 May 2007, Harald Alvestrand wrote:
> Simon Josefsson wrote:
> >That would make it impossible to include example code licensed
> >under, e.g., the BSD, MIT or similar licenses, in IETF document.
>
> The argument against is that it's onerous and nearly impossible for
> users to track down the provenance and licensing of each individual
> piece of code in an RFC to verify its usability, unless the IETF can
> help them.

The IETF should have available to it in some format the provenance and
licensing information corresponding to every copyrightable segment
created by any author present in the RFC. The IETF just has to figure
out how to best convey this information to readers of the RFC in a
useful format so they can make decisions on their own as to which code
should be used.

> The conclusion of the WG, as I understood it, was that we wanted
> implementors to be able to exercise the set of rights that the IETF
> grants to users of IETF code to all users of all IETF code (going
> forward from the day of implementation).

Right, but that means that licenses which are less restrictive than
the IETF requires should be allowed, because those rights are granted.


Don Armstrong

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