Hi Brian On Sun, May 01, 2022 at 02:11:11PM +1200, Brian E Carpenter wrote: [snip] > > The copyright notice on the document says: > > > > Copyright (c) 2022 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the > > document authors. All rights reserved. > > > > By way of this, by removing the names of authors, isn't the copyright > > notice attributed to the (original) document authors also being removed? > > I am not a lawyer, but I believe it's true that *nobody* can remove the > original authors' copyright (although the details might differ in each > country's laws). However, the point here is that when an IETF I-D is > submitted, it is done so under the IETF's conditions, including the > IETF's right to produce "derivative works". The details are in BCP98 > (RFC5378) and in the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions, but basically it > means that the text can be re-used in future IETF drafts and RFCs. The permission to modify and/or redistribute is not being questioned. It's the removal of authors, and what appears to be removal of copyright attribution also. Your draft's text sounds reasonable on this topic. > > Clearly the text is not copyright of the new authors in this document: > > I wonder if the conventional sentence "Copyright (c) 2022 IETF Trust and > the persons identified as the document authors" needs to be tuned to > also cover previous authors when the authorship team for a draft changes? > But that question is for the IETF Trust and its lawyer. Nod, this has to be examined. Mukund
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