[OpenID] [legal] Draft OpenID Intellectual Property RightsPolicy for Review

[Gabe Wachob]

Actually 3978 is the one talking about copyright, and it allows the author
(according to section 5.2) to prevent derivative works. 

But yes, I know there has been an ongoing working group about IPR in IETF
(is it coming anywhere near a close yet?)

And I'd note that unless RFC 2026 has explicit language, RFC 3978 (which
updates 2026) can't be retrospective and change the (C) license terms to
specs older than 3978... so there's probably some variety in (C) licensing
terms associated with RFC's

	-Gabe

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephane Bortzmeyer [mailto:bortzmeyer at nic.fr]
> Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 12:37 AM
> To: Gabe Wachob
> Cc: 'Simon Josefsson'; david at sixapart.com; legal at openid.net;
> general at openid.net
> Subject: Re: [legal] Draft OpenID Intellectual Property RightsPolicy for
> Review
> 
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 06:48:13PM -0700,
>  Gabe Wachob <gabe.wachob at amsoft.net> wrote
>  a message of 187 lines which said:
> 
> > IETF RFC's are even less useful - they simply say "All Rights Reserved".
> 
> The full story is not in every RFC, but in RFC 3979
> (www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3979.txt), currently being revised
> (http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/ipr-charter.html).