Tony,
Except that it prevents using the text of an RFC as comments in an
implementation.
OK -- I can see how that would be useful, but its not clear to me that
it would necessarily be a blocking requirement. Reality check: I'm
writing this e-mail to you and at least my side application, OS, and the
first couple of hops are completely pure open source yet every protocol
I use before until L2 is from an IETF RFC. Maybe the same on your side.
And somehow that code got written, presumably without lots of copying of
RFC text... And I can think of some RFCs where I'd rather not use that
text... (Comments? Who needs comments?)
But in any case, I wouldn't mind if we experimented with a more relaxed
license for some set of RFCs...
Jari
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