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Re: IETF and open source license compatibility

Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> Fri, 13 February 2009 20:12 UTC

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Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 09:12:16 +1300
From: Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: IETF and open source license compatibility
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On 2009-02-13 16:47, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:38:44 +0100
> Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> wrote:
> 
>> The discussion started by Stephan suggesting that free software
>> authors publish their work as free standards in the IETF.  My point
>> was that since the IETF disallow publishing standards under a license
>> that is compatible with free software licensing (e.g., allows
>> modification), it is not possible for free software authors to do
>> this.  Thus, to me, this discussion is not related to comments in
>> source code at all.
> 
> My understanding of IETF policy is that the IETF will publish I-Ds that
> are in the public domain.  Nothing is freer than that.  You're
> perfectly free to put your text in the public domain before submitting
> it for publication as an RFC.

Or afterwards, since the license a contributor grants to the
IETF Trust is non-exclusive. So contributing these words to the IETF
does not affect in any way my ability to do as I wish with them
after hitting the Send button.

    Brian

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