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Re: Copying conditions

2004-10-11 01:57:22
* Margaret Wasserman:

The open source community definitely wants to be able to guarantee to
its users the ability to take text or code from an IETF standard and
use that text or code in derivatives of that standard.  Parts of the
open source community want to be able to claim that that standard is
the real unmodified thing.  Other parts of the open source community
would be happy changing the name of the work and clearly indicating
what it is.

The above paragraph probably also works if you replace "The open 
source community" with the name of any large Internet-related 
software or hardware company, such as "Microsoft" of  "Cisco".  There 
is a lot to be gained by embracing and extending existing standards 
and establishing your own defacto standards that are supersets of the 
originals.  But, those defacto standards tend to be detrimental to 
one of the primary goals of the IETF:  interoperablity.

If you prepare a derivative work under copyright, it doesn't
automatically become an alternative to or replacement of the original
standard.  Further steps are necessary, and these steps don't really
depend on the existence of a modified standard (or any documentation
whatsoever).

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