Re: [Asrg] ASRG IPR policy (was RE: US Spam patents: Partial list)

Kee Hinckley <nazgul@somewhere.com> Sat, 14 June 2003 01:57 UTC

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To: Paul Judge <paul.judge@ciphertrust.com>
From: Kee Hinckley <nazgul@somewhere.com>
Subject: Re: [Asrg] ASRG IPR policy (was RE: US Spam patents: Partial list)
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Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 15:59:45 -0400

At 11:45 PM -0400 6/12/03, Paul Judge wrote:
>We have decided to adopt the following IPR policy for the ASRG. It is based
>on the IETF's IPR policy as outlined in RFC 2026.
>
>
>"By submission of a contribution, each person actually submitting the
>    contribution is deemed to agree to the following terms and conditions
>    on his own behalf, on behalf of the organization (if any) he
>    represents and on behalf of the owners of any propriety rights in the
>    contribution..  Where a submission identifies contributors in
>    addition to the contributor(s) who provide the actual submission, the
>    actual submitter(s) represent that each other named contributor was
>    made aware of and agreed to accept the same terms and conditions on
>    his own behalf, on behalf of any organization he may represent and
>    any known owner of any proprietary rights in the contribution.

Could you possibly do another pass on the wording?  Maybe I'm fuzzy 
today, but I couldn't make head or tail of that, even after reading 
your summary explanation.
-- 
Kee Hinckley
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I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.
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