RE: Proposed license for IETF Contributions

2005-12-02 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: Simon Josefsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 7:29 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Proposed license for IETF Contributions Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Please provide me

Re: Proposed license for IETF Contributions

2005-11-30 Thread Simon Josefsson
Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Please provide me with a reference for this. http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.html#wnp Under the subheading: WHAT IS NOT PROTECTED BY COPYRIGHT? Works consisting entirely of information that is common property and containing no original

RE: Proposed license for IETF Contributions

2005-11-22 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Simon Josefsson Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 9:28 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Proposed license for IETF Contributions Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes

Re: Proposed license for IETF Contributions

2005-11-21 Thread Simon Josefsson
Josefsson Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 7:28 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Proposed license for IETF Contributions Hi all. I noticed the following in the release notes for 6.0: The following manual pages, which were derived from RFCs and possibly violate the IETF's

Re: Proposed license for IETF Contributions

2005-11-21 Thread Simon Josefsson
James Bailie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Simon's proposed license seems reasonable to me. It is essentially a BSD-style license, allowing royalty-free redistribution and modification, but with a difference when it comes to attribution. Original unmodified text from a specification must

RE: Proposed license for IETF Contributions

2005-11-21 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of James Bailie Sent: Sunday, November 20, 2005 9:38 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Proposed license for IETF Contributions Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: You might check this but I believe

RE: Proposed license for IETF Contributions

2005-11-20 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
RFC is a specification, and therefore uncopyrightable. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Simon Josefsson Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 7:28 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Proposed license for IETF Contributions Hi all. I

Re: Proposed license for IETF Contributions

2005-11-20 Thread James Bailie
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: You might check this but I believe that the Copyright convention specifically excepts specifications from copyright coverage. I think there's some other classes of original work that fall under this. How about simply rewriting the ITEF license to designate any

Proposed license for IETF Contributions

2005-11-18 Thread Simon Josefsson
Hi all. I noticed the following in the release notes for 6.0: The following manual pages, which were derived from RFCs and possibly violate the IETF's copyrights, have been replaced: gai_strerror(3), getaddrinfo(3), getnameinfo(3), inet6_opt_init(3), inet6_option_space(3),