Dear Jari et al.;
On Feb 12, 2009, at 12:25 PM, Jari Arkko wrote:
Harald, Margaret, and Simon,
Harald wrote
actually that's intended to be permitted by RFC 5377 section 4.2:
and Margaret wrote:
However, I don't think that anyone actually believes that the IETF
will track down people who copy RFC text into comments and sue them
or attempt to get injunctions against them.
(2) Even if the IETF did try to sue you for copying sections of RFC
text into your source code comments, they'd almost certainly lose
So it seems that we actually do have at least some ability to deal
with comment-style use of RFCs fragments in free software. Simon, do
you see any residual issues that we need to solve, or were your
concerns in areas other than comments?
I am not a lawyer, but I don't believe that the IETF has no legal
existence and thus cannot sue. Any "IETF" suits would have to come
from the Trust. If there are issues, the Trust can solve them by
warranting that they will not sue under given conditions, as is being
done with the Trust Legal Provisions.
Marshall
Jari
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