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Re: IETF and open source license compatibility

Wes Hardaker <wjhns1@hardakers.net> Thu, 12 February 2009 21:19 UTC

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From: Wes Hardaker <wjhns1@hardakers.net>
To: Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>
Subject: Re: IETF and open source license compatibility
Organization: Sparta
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>>>>> On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:03:39 +0100, Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> said:

SJ> The IETF Trust sub-license third parties rights to code components in
SJ> (new) IETF documents under the BSD license, see section 4 of:

SJ> http://trustee.ietf.org/docs/IETF-Trust-License-Policy.pdf

Thanks!

Does anyone else feel that the IETF likes to document things in ways
that reflect a maze of twisty passages?  We're very good at making many
rooms (all 5686 of them) but not so good at marking the passageways
between them.
-- 
Wes Hardaker
Sparta, Inc.

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