RAND = Reasonable And Non-Discriminatory Neither the word "reasonable" nor the word "Non-Discriminatory" are defined in any of the license letters I saw on the IETF website.
/Larry Rosen > -----Original Message----- > From: Henry Pijffers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 12:33 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: IETF Patent Licenses are RAND > > > Pardon my ignorance, but what is RAND exactly? > > Henry Pijffers > > Lawrence E. Rosen wrote: > > To: The Open Source and Free Software Community > > > > Until my eyes grew dim, I reviewed the long collection of patent > > licenses on http://www.ietf.org/ipr. All I saw were RAND or worse. > > While some IETF members may have a preference for RF patent > licensing, > > clearly that standards organization isn't getting any RF patent > > licenses worthy of the name. > > -- > license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3 > -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3
