Hi, Bertrand, I don't have time to get a lawyer to review the implications of what you're sending here, so I don't agree to any of these terms.
Using the existing, already granted licenses, you should be fine. If that doesn't suit you, well, do what you wish. My recommendation is to stop listening to your can't-think-for-themselves lawyer. Common sense should prevail here. Mike On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 11:37 PM, Bertrand Marc <beberk...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Author, > > The Debian GNU/Linux distribution wishes to incorporate the > IETF SPDY draft protocol as part of its distribution, and to allow > users to develop, modify and evolve the document. > > Under IETF policies that were in effect during the development of > the SPDY draft protocol, the authors of contributions to the IETF > standards retain copyright with respect to such contributions. Because > you are an author of said document, the Debian community hereby requests > that you kindly agree to release your contributions in SPDY draft > protocol under the license below, for inclusion in Debian. > > I agree to grant third parties the irrevocable > right to copy, use and distribute the work, with > or without modification, in any medium, without royalty, > provided that, unless separate permission is granted, > redistributed modified works: > > (a) do not contain misleading author, version, name > of work, or endorsement information, and > > (b) do not claim endorsement of the modified work by > the Contributor, or any organization the > Contributor belongs to, the Internet Engineering > Task Force (IETF), Internet Research Task Force > (IRTF), Internet Engineering Steering Group > (IESG), Internet Architecture Board (IAB), > Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), > Internet Society (ISOC), Request For Comments > (RFC) Editor, or any combination or variation of > such terms (including without limitation the > IETF "4 diamonds" logo), or any terms that are > confusingly similar thereto, and > > (c) remove any claims of status as an Internet > Standard, including without limitation removing > the RFC boilerplate. > > The IETF suggests that any citation or excerpt of > unmodified text reference the RFC or other document from > which the text is derived. > > To indicate that you agree to these terms, please reply to this e-mail > and quote the license above and indicate that you agree to this. > > If you prefer another widely recognized free license instead, the > following ones are also fine: > * the 3-clause BSD license > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/info/BSD_3Clause.html > * the GNU GPL version 2 > http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl.txt > * the Expat license > http://www.jclark.com/xml/copying.txt > > Sincerely yours, > Bertrand Marc >
