Joel Halpern wrote: > The working group could have included what > Simon asked for in 5377. The rough consensus of the WG was not to do > so.
That is accurate. It is also a damned shame, and many of us still don't agree. /Larry Rosen Lawrence Rosen Rosenlaw & Einschlag, a technology law firm (www.rosenlaw.com) 3001 King Ranch Road, Ukiah, CA 95482 707-485-1242 * cell: 707-478-8932 * fax: 707-485-1243 Skype: LawrenceRosen > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Joel M. Halpern > Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2009 7:29 AM > To: Simon Josefsson > Cc: 'IETF Discussion' > Subject: Re: [Trustees] ANNOUNCEMENT: The IETF Trustees invite your > reviewandcomments on a proposed Work-Around to the Pre-5378 Problem > > Let's be quite clear here. > Your stated requirement for doing this was that authors had to be able > to take and modify any text from anywhere in an RFC. > The Working Group concluded that while that was reasonable relative to > code (and we tried to give the open source community that ability > relative to code), that such a wide grant was not reasonable relative to > the text content of RFC. (Among other concerns, such changes would > include modification of normative text and text carefully worked out by > working groups to get the meanings right. If the WG got it wrong, the > IETF is the place to fix it, not comments in code somewhere.) > > Also, it should be understood that this issue is largely orthogonal to > the topic under discussion. The working group could have included what > Simon asked for in 5377. The rough consensus of the WG was not to do > so. A more narrow 5378 would make it harder to make such a grant, but > since the working group didn't choose to do so (and personally, I think > doing so would undermine much of our work) the issues seems to have no > bearing on "whould we rescind 5378?" or "is there a better transition > strategy to get 5378 to apply to the bulk of our work?" or "how do we > get 5378 rights in code, without holding up all the other documents?" > > Yours, > Joel > > Simon Josefsson wrote: > > One of the remaining problems is, as described above, that the IETF > > license does not permit authors to take BSD licensed code and use them > > as illustration in RFCs because RFC 5378 does not permit additional > > copyright notices to be present in RFCs. > > > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
