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Re: Clarification for Copyright to referred material in IETF draft

Marshall Eubanks <tme@americafree.tv> Wed, 08 December 2010 15:07 UTC

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Subject: Re: Clarification for Copyright to referred material in IETF draft
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On Dec 8, 2010, at 3:57 AM, Samir Srivastava wrote:

> Hi,
>  
>   If a link is referred within the draft being submitted to IETF has link to other web-site as a reference for other work (such as wikipedia), does IETF require the copyright for that referred stuff also.
>  

Dear Samir;

The IETF does not require copyright in any web-site reference. A link reference is no different in this regard than any other. 

This statement is based on our advice of counsel.

Regards
Marshall Eubanks 
Chair / IETF Trust


> Thx
> Samir
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