--On Sunday, February 08, 2009 4:03 PM -0800 SM
<sm(_at_)resistor(_dot_)net> wrote:
...
The new Contributor would like to say that the document
contains Pre-5378 Material and he/she can only give rights for
modifications within the IETF Standards Process. The new
Contributor is unable to give any rights for non-IETF
derivative works as that falls outside the Internet Standards
Process.
Not quite, and I think this is where some of us are getting
confused.
(1) The IETF should be utterly indifferent to what the new
Contributor "likes", "wishes", or even "feels affection for".
(2) The new Contributor does not have discretion as to whether
5378 applies to the new parts of the work. It does. Full
stop. The only question is when 5378 became sufficiently
effective to be relevant to this.
(3) The submitting author (who will usually be the same person
as the new Contributor) is simply unable to make any assertions
at all about the rights to older material in the document other
than that it is available for use in the IETF process.
(4) Your last sentence above would be correct if it said
"...give any rights _to the complete document and all of its
elements_...".
The key here is clearly what the submitting author(s) are "able"
to do, not what they "wish", "elect", "would be willing to do if
they could", etc.
This is not about the new Contributor "does not wish" or
"elects" to withhold the rights as he/she does not have a
choice in the matter.
yea, except that the new Contributor cannot "withhold" anything
either. He or she can't even guarantee that 5378 rights are not
available. All the new Contributor knows is the he or she
doesn't inherently have those rights to grant the trust to grant
to others.
john
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