RE: Copying and licensing....Re: Copying conditions

>So would it be OK for an I-D author to say something like this:
>
>  In addition to the license given to the IETF, the author declares that
>  Copying and distribution of the work, with or without
>  modification, are permitted in any medium without royalty
>  provided the copyright notice and this notice are preserved

Harald,

I suggest that such a statement be put in an IP 
disclosure statement, just
as though a patent owner were telling the community that it
intends to license its patents on an RF basis.  Putting such
statements in the I-D could become very confusing.

Jorge

-----Original Message-----
From: ipr-wg-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:ipr-wg-bounces@ietf.org]On Behalf
Of Harald Tveit Alvestrand
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 11:01 AM
To: Scott Bradner
Cc: ipr-wg@ietf.org
Subject: Copying and licensing....Re: Copying conditions

This may be hopelessly amateur-lawyerish, but....

is there a reason why the text says "multiple.... copyright statements", 
and does not say "multiple..... licensing statements"?

I get a headache from the discussion of copyright notices, but the 
IMPORTANT part of the statement that Simon wants to add is his license 
terms, not his copyright statement.

And what the IETF cares about is that the IETF rights should not be 
*restricted*.

So would it be OK for an I-D author to say something like this:

  In addition to the license given to the IETF, the author declares that
  Copying and distribution of the work, with or without
  modification, are permitted in any medium without royalty
  provided the copyright notice and this notice are preserved

Or does that make no sense?
(I see lots of corner cases, like the case where portions of the RFC are 
quotes from another RFC that doesn't have such a clause - the "no 
sublicensing" stuff Jorge mentions applies here. But in theory....)

                  Harald

--On 8. januar 2005 05:04 -0500 Scott Bradner <sob@harvard.edu> wrote:

>>           Copyright (C) 2004, 2005 Simon Josefsso
>>
>>           Copying and distribution of the work, with or without
>>           modification, are permitted in any medium without royalty
>>           provided the copyright notice and this notice are preserved.
>>
>> ----------
>>
>> I see no problem with this in an RFC, and I don't see it as
>> conflicting with the ISOC copyright statement. Thoughts?
>
> multiple, potentially conflicting, copyright statements are a problem and
> are currently not permitted
>
> see RFC 3667 section 5.4
>
> Scott
>
>

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