Re: who has the,problem here, really?

[Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter at gmail.com>]

Joel,

I carefully didn't say "code". I said "text".

    Brian

On 2009-03-13 10:24, Joel M. Halpern wrote:
> Except that the lawyers have concluded that the earlier rules were
> sufficient for us to allow code usage as described in 5377.
> So that can not be the reason for doing 5378.
> Joel
> 
> Brian E Carpenter wrote:
>> On 2009-03-13 08:02, Scott Brim wrote:
>> ...
>>> This is an interesting idea.  Or even better, push it outside.  I'm
>>> being a little impatient here but I've been taught to ask who has the
>>> problem here, really?  It's the people who want to use the work
>>> outside of the IETF.  
>>
>> That's correct, and it's quite clear that ultimately there is no
>> way out of that. However, the case made during the IPR WG discussions
>> was that it isn't just the 1 in a thousand case of handing off a standard
>> to another SDO that matters. It's any case where a 3rd party wants to
>> use text for any purpose, such as commenting a piece of code or
>> writing a product manual. That's why, IMHO, a reasonable effort as
>> described in draft-carpenter-5378-old-text is a reasonable thing to
>> require. To my mind that is the main discussion point here.
>>
>>    Brian
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