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Re: Hackathon IPR rules

2015-11-04 02:34:52

On 04 Nov 2015, at 17:20, Miaofuyou (Miao Fuyou) 
<fuyou(_dot_)miao(_at_)huawei(_dot_)com> wrote:

Thanks for the Trust to work on the Hackathon IPR rules. Will we have a 
documented guideline based on the rules set in the Trust report?

Yes. The current rules in effect for the hackathon that we just had were here:
https://www.ietf.org/registration/MeetingWiki/wiki/94hackathon#ipr_and_code_contribution_guideline

But the Trust will provide a more formal version of these rules.

The rules says "participants are free to work on any code during an IETF 
event", how could this be actualized if a Hackathon open source project is 
member based?

Maybe that’s an area where the Trust can write the text more clearly :-)

The intent of the language was that from IETF perspective we are not limiting 
what the participants can work on. And we are not demanding any rights or the 
sort for what their code contributions are within the hackathon. But of course, 
projects exist that do not allow just anybody to make changes or even see the 
code. That’s fine, but of course the participants may be required by their 
organisations, projects, or laws to not break those rules.

In other words, the IETF sets no limit or demand on what code people work on, 
but obviously many projects in the world set their own demands, and complying 
to those if you work on them is probably advisable :-)

Jari

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