spec licensing

Jim Gettys Jim.Gettys at hp.com
Fri Oct 17 17:09:29 EEST 2003


This is covered in RFC2026. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2026.txt

Copyright is assigned to the Internet Society, but not necessarily
until something has become at least a proposed standard.


The Gnu free documentation license has problems: in particular,
specs need to be modifiable to keep up with additions, etc,
so licenses which (can) restrict 
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 23:06, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I don't think we've ever discussed what license to use on the specs.
> What do IETF and similar use? Opinions on what we should use?
> 
> Havoc
> 
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Jim Gettys <Jim.Gettys at hp.com>
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