RE: Issue found in RFC 3667 text

"Lawrence Rosen" <lrosen@rosenlaw.com> Thu, 29 April 2004 18:00 UTC

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From: Lawrence Rosen <lrosen@rosenlaw.com>
To: 'Fred Baker' <fred@cisco.com>, "'Contreras, Jorge'" <Jorge.Contreras@haledorr.com>
Cc: sob@harvard.edu, ipr-wg@ietf.org, rbarr@cisco.com
Subject: RE: Issue found in RFC 3667 text
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 09:59:56 -0800
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Jorge Contreras wrote:

It seems that in a case where the license is free and is extended in any
case except if the licensing company sues mine (Cisco's practice on such
things), this should be sufficient. 

 

I agree that it should be sufficient if a free license to the patent is
extended. But that is the very thing that is missing from the IETF policy.
No such license is required. 

 

So what is "sufficient" isn't provided.

 

/Larry Rosen