Whilst I've been working on consolidating all of the AFS RPC refresh proposals, I've come across what I believe is a general problem with the copyright of our existing XG files, and the internet draft process.
Our XG files, as with most of the rest of OpenAFS, are distributed under the IBM public license, and copyright IBM + contributors. As far as my woefully limited knowledge of copyright law goes, any derivatives of these RPCs would have to be under a similar license. This means that I (as a document author) cannot grant to the IETF Trust any of the provisions required by RFC5738. Now, we're in theory targeting the Independent stream with our documents, so this may not be an issue, although many of the tools I have tried don't support documents without 5738 boilerplate particularly well. Finally, it does raise the question of what the copyright of the finished document actually is. Is the new standardisation document, in effect, a derivative of the original XG files, and so IPL'd? Are the XDR and RPC descriptions contained within that document under the IPL, and so unusable by GPL (or commercial) implementors? Sorry to open this can of worms... Simon. _______________________________________________ AFS3-standardization mailing list [email protected] http://michigan-openafs-lists.central.org/mailman/listinfo/afs3-standardization
