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Re: IETF and open source license compatibility

Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> Thu, 12 February 2009 21:03 UTC

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From: Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>
To: Wes Hardaker <wjhns1@hardakers.net>
Subject: Re: IETF and open source license compatibility
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Wes Hardaker <wjhns1@hardakers.net> writes:

> So, I couldn't find a statement that says automatic sublicenses will be
> given out for code related items.  It only says that the policies for
> creating those sublicenses ***will*** be guided by 5377 (which says
> about the right thing: you can modify code extracts).  IE, is it
> actually possible to use code from RFCs beyond 5378?  I think each
> company/organization/author would need to personally ask the IETF trust
> for a sublicense?

The IETF Trust sub-license third parties rights to code components in
(new) IETF documents under the BSD license, see section 4 of:

http://trustee.ietf.org/docs/IETF-Trust-License-Policy.pdf

/Simon

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