> From: Harald Tveit Alvestrand [mailto:harald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] > I agree - and I think the IPR WG's mailing list is the right > place to have > the public discussion of that issue. > > Unfortunately efforts to write a candidate license have fizzled out > numerous times in the past - partly because it's genuinely > hard to do, > partly because the lawyers who might write it see some legal > risk in trying > to write one (they fear being accused of trying to bias such > a license to > their particular ends), partly because the acrimony > surrounding this issue > has been rather uncomfortable, to say the least, in past discussions. > > May be time to try again - I think it's definitely needed. A long time ago I was involved in an attempt to develop standard legal contract terms (eterms). At the end I concluded that the way that the group should have worked was to take existing contracts and recognize them as exemplars. _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf