Dear John;
From your email :
On Dec 17, 2008, at 12:16 PM, John C Klensin wrote:
(iii) Rewrite the document to remove any copyright
dependencies on text whose status is uncertain or for
which rights transfers are significantly difficult.
This is a dangerous solution, and may not be one at all.
My mantra on these issues is : Engineers should not try and be lawyers.
(And, lawyers should not try and be engineers.) I try to follow it
personally, as I
am definitely not a lawyer (and, of course, I am not referring to
anyone who is cross-trained).
But I do know this - merely rewriting a document is not necessarily
enough to remove copyright
dependancies. J.K. Rowling, for example, won a suit against someone
who wrote a Lexicon of
her work :
<http://www.fictionaddiction.net/Publishing-Industry-News/rowling-wins-copyright-infringement-lawsuit.html
>
If this actually became an issue, it would be decided by a court, and
I would not regard either myself or the vast
majority of IETF contributors as competent to judge how a court would
react to any given rewriting of an RFC
if it went to trial.
Regards
Marshall
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