RE: Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents: Code License

>Simon wrote:

> Fortunately, I believe the intention is that the license for 
> code should
> be the modified BSD license and ONLY the modified BSD 
> license.  In other
> words, the above license terms are not intended to apply to portions
> that is code.  Is my understanding correct?

Correct

> 
> If so, I suggest to add to section 3 something that captures this
> intention.  For example:
> 
>        To clarify, the entire license for Code Components is the above
>        license, and if you use the above license for a Code Component,
>        the license terms in section 2 does not apply to that material.
> 
In Section 2, we can say that the license for excerpts is 
"subject to the special rights with respect to Code Components 
granted under Section 3".

> Comment #5:
> 
> Quoting section 3:
> 
>        b.  License. Code Components are hereby licensed to each person
>        who wishes to receive such a license on the terms of the "BSD
>        License", as follows:
> 
> The license quoted isn't the original "BSD License".  The original BSD
> license contained an advertisement clause:
> 
>   3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of 
> this software
>      must display the following acknowledgement:
>        This product includes software developed by the University of
>        California, Berkeley and its contributors.
> 
> That clause causes license compatibility problems, so I'm 
> happy that you
> have removed it.

We are using the "New and Simplified BSD License" which is published
by opensource.org at:
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php

> You also modified other parts of the license, such as replacing
> references to the author with references to the IETF Trust and
> contributors.  

I believe this is what the BSD License means for the user to do.  

> To avoid confusion, it would be better to reflect this in the
> description of the license.   I suggest to write "Modified 
> BSD License"
> instead of "BSD License".

I don't think this is necessary.  Can you review with the N&S BSD
in mind?
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