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Re: License File for Open Source Repositories

2016-12-24 02:57:04
Dave,

Seasons greetings! :-)

"open source != BSD". There are better licenses out there - notably
apache 2.0 is pretty clear, legally, in places where BSD is not.

You may be correct, but this license file was not intended to change what IETF 
policies around code in RFCs and I-Ds are. It was only intended to be usable as 
a note in a repository used for spec work; the note just says that the IETF 
rules apply. And those rules say we apply BSD license for the code components 
in our documents, see Section 4 in 
https://trustee.ietf.org/documents/IETF-TLP-5_001.html.

Jari

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