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Re: Legal review results 1: Intellectual property (fwd)

2005-01-26 18:03:59
"Ted" == Ted Hardie <hardie(_at_)qualcomm(_dot_)com> writes:

    Ted> At 6:23 PM -0500 1/26/05, Sam Hartman wrote:
    >> I brought up the issue of sublicensing.  Perhaps I missed
    >> discussion in the flood of messages.  Assuming I didn't, let me
    >> try and prod people?
    >> 
    >> Do people believe the issue of sublicensing is not worth
    >> discussing or are we all just unsure what to say about it?

    Ted> My take is that if we develop it, we can set up the licensing
    Ted> to be free and sublicensable.  No need to put that in the
    Ted> BCP.

OK, although I think we are insisting on similar things already.

I'm also concerned about sublicensing the rights to data.

I think I'm particularly concerned about this issue explicitly because
we don't have these rights under RFC 3667 and when I first brought up
the issue Harald didn't think it would be a good thing to insist on.

    Ted> If we are using a service developed by a provider also
    Ted> serving others, the provider may well want to license certain
    Ted> software to us without granting us to sublicense it to
    Ted> others, as that's their business.  

Completely agreed.

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