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Re: IETF and open source license compatibility

"Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu> Fri, 13 February 2009 03:47 UTC

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Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:47:24 -0500
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>
Subject: Re: IETF and open source license compatibility
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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.

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb

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