On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 12:46:20 EDT, Sal Mangiapane <salm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said: > 5.4. Copyright Notice (required for all IETF Documents) > "Copyright (C) The Internet Society (year). This document is > subject to the rights, licenses and restrictions contained in BCP > 78, and except as set forth therein, the authors retain all their > rights." > BUT, in both documents an additional copyright statement is included > near the beginning of the documents: > Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2004). All Rights Reserved. > Is this a conflict? Agreed - the two texts *do* differ, and there is a bit of "practice what you preach" lurking there. However, the additional language in the 5.4 boilerplate appears to be there because the authors of RFC3667 and 3668 presumably assigned all rights to the Internet Society with the intention of the Society having *all* the rights to the RFC, whereas most RFCs the authors may wish to retain some of the rights to the document. So for the 2 RFCs, the Society keeps all the rights, but in general the intent is to assign the copyright to the Society, which then grants back to the authors all the rights except the limited subset listed in BCP 78 which it needs to do its work. As such, I don't see a conflict here. Of course, IANAL, and I presume that someone who actually is one did a double-check of all this....
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