Re: #1511: Proposed resolution of Incoming 5.10: Back-license to document authors in resulting RFCs

[Harald Alvestrand <harald at alvestrand.no>]

John Calhoon (LCA) skrev:
> IANAL, but after confering with internal counsel I'd like to offer the following simplification:
>
> "While contributors provide certain copyright license rights to the IETF, contributors retain all ownership and use rights in their contributions.  The IETF Trust is instructed to grant no copyright licenses to users of IETF documents that infringe the copyrights of contributors in any way."
>
> My internal counsel believes suggesting that contributors need a license from anyone to use their works, whether in original or derivative form, would actually call the contributor's rights into question rather than clarifying them
>   
that's the first time I've heard of a theory that says that if nothing
else is said, a contributor has automatic rights to use whatever works
can be defined as derivative works from his original contribution - but
that's what your words seem to say (IANAL, of course).

Can you double-check with your counsel that this is indeed what he/she
intended to say?

If this is true, the language can indeed be simplified.

                    Harald


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