Harald Alvestrand <harald at alvestrand.no> writes:
1) Insert a "read-only" license into -incoming, granting essentially the
same rights as is granted to any other reader, but linking them to the
submission agreement rather than to an IETF Trust grant decision:
That seems to be an OK approach. I support that it should be very clear
for IETF contributors that they retain the copyright of their
submission. To make that as clear as possible, making that explicit in
-incoming seems like a good idea.
Although the devil is in the details, specifically:
5.10. Contributors retention of rights
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Notwithstanding any terms in this document to the contrary, in addition
to any rights under copyright retained by Contributor and in addition to
any rights generally granted by the TETF trust, Contributor retains, and
grants to each Co-Contributor to an RFC in which such Contributor's
Contribution, or a derivative work thereof may appear, the right:
Ouch! This goes way beyond "author retains their rights", it grants
co-authors some rights to other co-authors' contributions.
More importantly, the text does not explain that authors retains the
copyright in their contribution. That is the most important thing to
describe in -incoming.