Re: IETF Last Call for two IPR WG Dcouments

Ray Pelletier wrote:
> Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
>
> > Joel M. Halpern wrote:
> >  
> >
> > > I do not understand the problem you want addressed.  The way this is
> > > worded, it doesn't matter what "open source" or "free software" is or
> > > becomes.  The intention is to grant anyone to do anything with the
> > > code segments.  That's what we ask the trust to do. Further in line.
> > >   
> > I think Simon is suggesting that we provide some guidance to the Trust
> > in choosing a license. IANAL, however the phrase "grant anyone to do
> > anything" sounds nice in theory but needs to be translated into a
> > functioning license. As far as I can see there are three licenses that
> > would fit the bill:
> >
> > 1. The MIT license
> > 2. A BSD-style license
> > 3. A designation that the code is in the public domain
> >
> > Some people allege that it is not possible to put a work directly into
> > the public domain (although I disagree), which is why they prefer to use
> > a license.
> >
> > As a point of comparison, the XMPP Standards Foundation recently worked
> > to make sure that its specifications are safe for inclusion in free
> > sofware, and decided upon a slightly-modified MIT license (modified in
> > order to make clear that we were publishing specifications, not code).
> > The resulting license is here:
> >
> > http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/ipr-policy.shtml
> >  
> The Trustees adopted the Non-Profit Open Software License 3.0 in
> September 2007 as the license it would use for open sourcing software
> done as work-for-hire and that contributed to it, at that time thinking
> of code contributed by IETF volunteers.  See: 
> http://trustee.ietf.org/licenses.html
> Is it clear that the contributions contemplated by these documents would
> require a different treatment?
Thanks for the link. I had not been aware of this license, so I'll take
some time to read it before commenting. I've also sent the text of the
license to the debian-legal list for discussion among that community.

Peter

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