Re: IETF Last Call for two IPR WG Dcouments

I am still left with the impression that adding references to specific 
licenses to the draft is going to be confusing, not helpful.
If we started saying "needs to be compatible with license X, Y, and Z" 
then we have at least two problems.  We would have to confirm that X, Y, 
and Z all met our goals.  And we would have to figure out why we should 
point to X, Y, and Z but not Q, W, or any other licenses that may be 
suitable as models.

I have no problem with any individual suggesting to the Trustees that 
specific existing models may be a good way to achieve the stated goal. 
But adding references to example licenses, even if we were sure they 
matched our goals, will not help anyone understand the agreed goals. 
The existing statement is quite clear English.

Yours,
Joel M. Halpern

Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org> writes:
> 
>> At 7:30 PM +0200 3/30/08, Simon Josefsson wrote:
>>> Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org> writes:
>>>  > These are interesting points, but maybe not interesting in the way
>>>>  you intended. If some large group (in this example, the Debian folks)
>>>>  want to have some restriction on what they can use in their software,
>>>>  that's fine. But that doesn't mean that the IETF needs to do anything
>>>>  beyond what it wants to do in order to cater to that group's current
>>>>  desires. Every such group could act just like the IETF does: look
>>>>  around at what the problems it is facing and change the way it acts
>>>>  based on an analysis of the problems.
>>> We disagree here.  I believe the IETF has a responsibility to chose a
>>> license that works well for a large majority of Internet users.  To some
>>> extents, the IETF needs to cater for organizations that make up parts of
>>> the Internet.
>> So, then we clearly agree. Where we seem to disagree is whether it is 
>> possible to demand that the IETF cater to all the organizations that 
>> you want, or that I want, or <*> wants, or whatever.
> 
> Right.  Further, I believe the intention with the documents is to cater
> to everyone:
> 
>   "grant rights such that code components of IETF contributions can be
>   extracted, modified, and used by anyone in any way desired"
> 
> The complicated part is HOW that goal is achieved.  It is easy to go
> wrong even with the best intentions.
> 
> /Simon
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