Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 18:30:52 +0100 From: Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> To: James Bailie <jimmy@jamesbailie.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Proposed license for IETF Contributions Message-ID: <iluwtj1q56b.fsf@latte.josefsson.org> In-Reply-To: <4380B48C.8080909@jamesbailie.com> (James Bailie's message of "Sun, 20 Nov 2005 12:38:20 -0500") References: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNCENDFCAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> <4380B48C.8080909@jamesbailie.com>
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James Bailie <jimmy@jamesbailie.com> writes: > Simon's proposed license seems reasonable to me. It is > essentially a BSD-style license, allowing royalty-free > redistribution and modification, but with a difference when it > comes to attribution. Original unmodified text from a > specification must contain an attribution to the source document, > while any modified versions (which may contain inaccuracies) have > to have all references to the source organizations removed. Right. Thanks for looking at the license. We have later identified a potential problem, in that removing all references to the source organization is not what we always want. It seem useful for derived work to continue to be able to state that they are derived from an IETF document. I.e., the IETF must be mentioned if you are going to cite it. I'll post the updated license on freebsd-doc, it was suggested to move this discussion there, to reach a better audience. Thanks, Simon
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