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RE: where to send RFC 5378 license forms

2008-12-19 12:40:56


--On Thursday, 18 December, 2008 17:37 -0500 "Contreras, Jorge"
<Jorge(_dot_)Contreras(_at_)wilmerhale(_dot_)com> wrote:

As a slightly harder example: what is the set of names 
required to cover
all the boilerplate text that goes into an RFC containing a 
MIB module?

See above.  In addition, MIB modules were licensed broadly
under RFC 3978, so they are less problematic than non-code
text.

Maybe I still don't fully understand what 5398 does, but, while
that broad licensing of MIB modules presumably permits the IETF
(and others) to work with them, it doesn't imply the transfers
to the Trust, and ability of the Trust to relicense, required by
5398, does it?  And, if not, the broad licensing of MIB modules
doesn't help a new author of a document that incorporates a MIB
module make  the assertions that 5398 requires, does it?  

If the answer is "no", then such an author would still have to
go back to the original Contributor(s) of the MIB module and
persuade them to generate the new license, just as he or she
would with any other older contributed text.   Right?

    john

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