On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 12:46:20 EDT, Sal Mangiapane
<salm(_at_)servanttechnology(_dot_)com> said:
5.4. Copyright Notice (required for all IETF Documents)
"Copyright (C) The Internet Society (year). This document is
subject to the rights, licenses and restrictions contained in BCP
78, and except as set forth therein, the authors retain all their
rights."
BUT, in both documents an additional copyright statement is included
near the beginning of the documents:
Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2004). All Rights Reserved.
Is this a conflict?
Agreed - the two texts *do* differ, and there is a bit of "practice what you
preach" lurking there. However, the additional language in the 5.4 boilerplate
appears to be there because the authors of RFC3667 and 3668 presumably
assigned all rights to the Internet Society with the intention of the Society
having *all* the rights to the RFC, whereas most RFCs the authors may wish
to retain some of the rights to the document. So for the 2 RFCs, the Society
keeps all the rights, but in general the intent is to assign the copyright to
the Society, which then grants back to the authors all the rights except the
limited subset listed in BCP 78 which it needs to do its work.
As such, I don't see a conflict here. Of course, IANAL, and I presume
that someone who actually is one did a double-check of all this....
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