One of the challenges that the afs3-standardization process faces with regards to publication of documents via the RFC Editor is that IBM applied the IBM Public License 1.0 to the OpenAFS .xg files. As a result, document authors/editors are unable to include RPC specifications that are derived from IBM's .xg files since the IBM Public License 1.0 does not meet the requirement that all code snippets be licensed under the "Simplified BSD License".
A request was submitted to IBM's Intellectual Property lawyers requesting that the .xg files and several other portions of OpenAFS be licensed under something other than the IBM Public License 1.0. That request has been denied. IBM is unable to perform the necessary legal review of the OpenAFS DeveloperWorks distribution to determine which files may have been inappropriately licensed. This decision is unfortunate although not entirely unexpected. It was difficult for IBM to perform the review in 2000. Twelve years later too much knowledge has been lost. Jeffrey Altman
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