Re: Section 6.5: Additional Licenses for IETF Contributions

[John C Klensin <john-ietf at jck.com>]

--On Monday, 14 May, 2007 16:55 +0200 Brian E Carpenter
<brc at zurich.ibm.com> wrote:

>>    In draft x author X reproduces code y written by Y.
>>    Author X got the permission of Y to do this, and might
>>    note it in the acknowledgements of draft x:  "Thanks to Y
>>    for the permission to reproduce code y in this
>>    contribution, readers can use code y as specified in BCP
>>    78bis."
>> 
>> If that's what you're talking about.  
> 
> Yes, I think so. This is the one case where getting explicit
> permission
> may be necessary; that's something we want to avoid in general.

Of course, our existing rules about acknowledgments encourage,
if not require, such statements anyway.   One can even argue
that, if Y is not actively participating in the IETF, explicit
permission is required in many cases: without it, a strict
reading of our rules prevents X from posting the document in the
first place, even as an I-D.

    john


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