Re: Transfers of copyright versus licensing

On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 16:02, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> 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?

ok, now I'm confused; how is this any different from the universe 
described in John Klensin's note:

   The IETF's traditional approach toward documents, even 
   standards-track ones, has been to leave copyright ownership in 
   the hands of the original authors and editors but to demand, for 
   the IETF and ISOC, such rights as we believe are required to get 
   our work done.

i.e.., in the universe as described by Klensin, the original author is 
already able to fork the protocol.

I agree with you that forking of protocols is something which should be
discouraged.

						- Bill

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