RE: Example of RFC 3978 incompatible license indraft-eastlake-sha2-02.txt

Hi Simon,

Can you point out the specific clauses in the two licenses that you
think are incompatible?

dbh

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simon Josefsson [mailto:jas@extundo.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 8:56 AM
> To: ipr-wg@ietf.org
> Subject: Example of RFC 3978 incompatible license 
> indraft-eastlake-sha2-02.txt
> 
> There has been an argument from the IAB that the "GNU Public
License"
> (sic) is incompatible with the RFC 3978 license, and thus code
> licensed under that license cannot be part of a document.  I'm told
> this IAB notice should be sent to this WG, but I haven't seen it
yet.
> 
> Meanwhile, I'd like to point out that recently approved
> draft-eastlake-sha2-02 contains this license:
> 
> 1.1 License
> 
>    Royalty free license to copy and use this software is granted
>    provided that this document is identified in all material 
> mentioning
>    or referencing this software. Royalty free license is also 
> granted to
>    make and use derivative works provided that such works are 
> identified
>    as derived from this work.
> 
>    The authors make no representations concerning either the
>    merchantability of this software or the suitability of 
> this software
>    for any particular purpose. It is provided "as is" without 
> express or
>    implied warranty of any kind.
> 
> As far as I can tell, this is incompatible with the RFC 3978
license.
> 
> The license also seems incompatible with the notion that code
excerpts
> should be modifiable, without additional restrictions.
> 
> Personally, I believe the license above, and the (L)GPL, are fine
for
> use on code in RFCs.
> 
> Are there any thoughts on license incompatibilities from the IPR WG?
> 
> Thanks,
> Simon
> 
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