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Re: IETF and open source license compatibility

TSG <tglassey@earthlink.net> Thu, 12 February 2009 21:09 UTC

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Subject: Re: IETF and open source license compatibility
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Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Jari Arkko <jari.arkko@piuha.net> writes:
>
>   
>> Harald, Margaret, and Simon,
>>
>> Harald wrote
>>     
>>> actually that's intended to be permitted by RFC 5377 section 4.2:
>>>       
>> and Margaret wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> However, I don't think that anyone actually believes that the IETF
>>> will track down people who copy RFC text into comments and sue them
>>> or attempt to get injunctions against them.
>>>
>>> (2) Even if the IETF did try to sue you for copying sections of RFC
>>> text into your source code comments, they'd almost certainly lose
>>>       
>> So it seems that we actually do have at least some ability to deal
>> with comment-style use of RFCs fragments in free software. Simon, do
>> you see any residual issues that we need to solve, or were your
>> concerns in areas other than comments?
>>     
>
> 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.
>   
So then just create another IETF Standard for Open Source Licensing.
> /Simon
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