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Re: where to send RFC 5378 license forms

2008-12-20 08:18:36
"Contreras, Jorge" <Jorge(_dot_)Contreras(_at_)wilmerhale(_dot_)com> writes:

My point was that code was already broadly licensed under the OLD
copyright rules in 3978, so the post-5378 contributor doesn't face the
same predicament when he/she re-uses pre-5378 code as when he/she
re-uses pre-5378 text (i.e., his/her warranty is TRUE when made with
respect to pre-5378 code fragments).  Here's the code license granted
under 3978:

      (E) to extract, copy, publish, display, distribute, modify and
          incorporate into other works, for any purpose (and not limited
          to use within the IETF Standards Process) any executable code
          or code fragments that are included in any IETF Document (such
          as MIB and PIB modules), 

Those rights are only granted to 'the ISOC and the IETF', not to third
parties, see the paragraph above (E):

   a. To the extent that a Contribution or any portion thereof is
      protected by copyright and other rights of authorship, the
      Contributor, and each named co-Contributor, and the organization
      he or she represents or is sponsored by (if any) grant a
      perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free, world-wide
      right and license to the ISOC and the IETF under all intellectual
      property rights in the Contribution:

Third parties get no rights under RFC 3978.

/Simon
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