[Ltru] Fw: IESG Statement on Copyright

["Randy Presuhn" <randy_presuhn at mindspring.com>]

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Randy

----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "IESG Secretary" <iesg-secretary at ietf.org>
> To: <ietf-announce at ietf.org>
> Cc: <wgchairs at ietf.org>; <ietf at ietf.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 12:45 PM
> Subject: IESG Statement on Copyright 
>
> This IESG Statement obsoletes all earlier IESG Statements regarding
> Copyright statements in MIB and PIB Modules.
> 
> The IESG is providing this guidance to align current practice with
> RFC 5377, RFC 5378, and the resulting IETF Trust Legal Provisions (TLP)
> (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info).
> 
> IETF Contributions and IETF Documents often include code components
> that are intended to be directly processed by a computer. Examples of
> such code components include ABNF definitions, XML Schemas, XML DTDs,
> XML RelaxNG definitions, tables of values, MIBs, PIBs, ASN.1, and
> classical programming source code. The IETF Trust maintains a list of
> code component types. A link to this list can be found on this web
> page: http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info.
> 
> In addition to the code component types listed, any text found between
> the markers &lt;CODE BEGINS&gt; and &lt;CODE ENDS&gt; shall be considered
> a code component. Authors may wish to use these markers as clear
> delimiters of code components.
> 
> Authors are encouraged to collect code into a separate section or
> appendix.
> 
> The TLP requires copyright notice in IETF Documents, but not necessarily
> in each code component within an IETF Document. Authors may choose to
> include a copyright notice as a comment when a significant amount of
> code is collected together. For example, authors may include a
> copyright notice in a comment as part of an ASN.1 module or a
> representation of a classical programming language file. If IETF
> Document authors choose to include a code component copyright notice
> comment, they must follow the guidance in Section 6.d of the TLP.
> Implementors that extract any code component from the IETF Document must
> include the BSD license text as described in Section 4.e of the TLP.