Re: IETF and open source license compatibility (Was: Re: yet another comment on draft-housley-tls-authz-extns-07.txt)

Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no> Thu, 12 February 2009 16:01 UTC

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Subject: Re: IETF and open source license compatibility (Was: Re: yet another comment on draft-housley-tls-authz-extns-07.txt)
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Tony Finch wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Feb 2009, Jari Arkko wrote:
>   
>> I agree that there are problematic case, but I believe I hope everyone
>> realizes this is only the case if the RFC in question has code.
>> Otherwise it really does not matter. Only some RFCs have code.
>>     
>
> Except that it prevents using the text of an RFC as comments in an
> implementation.
>   
actually that's intended to be permitted by RFC 5377 section 4.2:

4.2.  Rights Granted for Quoting from IETF Contributions

   There is rough consensus that it is useful to permit quoting without
   modification of excerpts from IETF Contributions.  Such excerpts may
   be of any length and in any context.  Translation of quotations is
   also to be permitted.  All such quotations should be attributed
   properly to the IETF and the IETF Contribution from which they are
   taken.

You're not permitted to modify the text. You are permitted to use it.

                  Harald