Re: Transfers of copyright versus licensing

Brian E Carpenter <brc@zurich.ibm.com> Sat, 12 March 2005 03:35 UTC

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Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Brian E Carpenter <brc@zurich.ibm.com> writes:
> 
> 
>>Bill Sommerfeld wrote:
>>
>>>I've seen indications (in the context of an open source project) that
>>>joint copyright ownership might be legally possible.
>>>In other words, both the contributor *and* the recipient would
>>>retain full
>>>rights to do whatever they wanted with the text.
>>
>>Scenario: I write a spec. The IETF puts the ISOC copyright on it.
>>I invert a couple of bytes in my version and republish.
>>Interoperability, anybody?
> 
> 
> What exactly is your point?

There was some late-in-the-week sloppiness in my message.

I invert a couple of bytes in the protocol format defined
in the spec. It won't interoperate with the format defined
in the RFC.

     Brian


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