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RE: ANNOUNCEMENT: The IETF Trustees invite your comments onrevised proposed legend text to work-around the Pre-5378 Problem

2009-01-24 10:57:07
John C, Klensin writes...

The point is that different countries have different rules,
different names for the rules, and different criteria.

Right.  I should have said "fair use" or whatever the corresponding legal
doctrine is called in your jurisdiction.  Is there a generic,
jurisdiction-independent term for this doctrine?

* The current and former policies focus on getting people to
give the IETF (and IETF Trust) whatever rights they need, not on
making would-be users of text spend energy trying to figure out
what they can and cannot appropriate without those rights.

Sure.

* This debate, and the workaround, are really about what rights
I have to claim that I have, or have obtained, to give to the
IETF.

I'm trying to figure out what specific guidance, in the form of a
step-by-step procedure, I can give to my WG so that draft authors can
identify whether or not they need to include the workaround boilerplate.  I
don't want each of them to have to understand all the nuances of this
debate, nor contact personal / corporate counsel in the process.


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