sob(_at_)harvard(_dot_)edu (scott bradner) writes:
If you extract, say, a C header file, or an ASN.1 schema, from an RFC
into an application, I believe that may be regard as a "derivative
work".
see RFC 3667 Section 3.3 (a) (E)
a. To the extent that a Contribution or any portion thereof is
protected by copyright and other rights of authorship, the
Contributor, and each named co-Contributor, and the organization
he or she represents or is sponsored by (if any) grant a
perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free, world-wide
right and license to the ISOC and the IETF under all intellectual
property rights in the Contribution:
(E) to extract, copy, publish, display, distribute, modify and
incorporate into other works, for any purpose (and not
limited to use within the IETF Standards Process) any
executable code or code fragments that are included in any
IETF Document (such as MIB and PIB modules), subject to the
requirements of Section 5 (it also being understood that the
licenses granted under this paragraph (E) shall not be deemed
to grant any right under any patent, patent application or
other similar intellectual property right disclosed by the
Contributor under [IETF IPR]).
As far as I can tell, those rights are only granted to the ISOC and
the IETF, not "third parties".
Thanks.
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