Re: IETF Last Call for two IPR WG Dcouments

[Margaret Wasserman <[e-mail]>]

Ray Pelletier wrote:
> The Trustees adopted the Non-Profit Open Software License 3.0 in  
> September 2007 as the license it would use for open sourcing  
> software done as work-for-hire and that contributed to it, at that  
> time thinking of code contributed by IETF volunteers.  See:  http:// 
> trustee.ietf.org/licenses.html
>
> Is it clear that the contributions contemplated by these documents  
> would require a different treatment?


Disclaimer:  IANAL, and I apologize if I am misunderstanding  
something about the license you referenced, but...

It seems to me that the "Non-Profit Open Software License 3.0", while  
fine for the source code to IETF tools, places more restrictions and  
more burden on someone who uses the code than we would want to place  
on someone who uses a MIB, XML schema or other "code" from our RFCs.

For example, the license places an obligation on someone using the  
source code to distribute copies of the original source code with any  
products they distribute.  Effectively, this means that anyone who  
distributes products based on MIBs, XML schemas or other "code" from  
RFCs would need to put up a partial RFC repository.  Why would we  
want that?

Margaret

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