"Contreras, Jorge" <Jorge.Contreras@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> My point was that code was already broadly licensed under the OLD
> copyright rules in 3978, so the post-5378 contributor doesn't face the
> same predicament when he/she re-uses pre-5378 code as when he/she
> re-uses pre-5378 text (i.e., his/her warranty is TRUE when made with
> respect to pre-5378 code fragments). Here's the code license granted
> under 3978:
>
> (E) to extract, copy, publish, display, distribute, modify and
> incorporate into other works, for any purpose (and not limited
> to use within the IETF Standards Process) any executable code
> or code fragments that are included in any IETF Document (such
> as MIB and PIB modules),
Those rights are only granted to 'the ISOC and the IETF', not to third
parties, see the paragraph above (E):
a. To the extent that a Contribution or any portion thereof is
protected by copyright and other rights of authorship, the
Contributor, and each named co-Contributor, and the organization
he or she represents or is sponsored by (if any) grant a
perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free, world-wide
right and license to the ISOC and the IETF under all intellectual
property rights in the Contribution:
Third parties get no rights under RFC 3978.
/Simon
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