+1. Which is why I suggest that we should support the Trustees' proposed short term fix, to allow normal work to continue +/- cutting and pasting some boilerplate. We do have a glitch in 5378 to mend, but let's get that off the critical path. Brian On 2009-01-11 09:12, John C Klensin wrote: > +1 > > It seems to me that we are spending a great deal of energy on > non-problems (including the one Ted discusses below) and too > little time on real issues... like how to encourage people to do > real work around here (where requiring authors try to figure out > who might have contributed parts of a document that a > predecessor to one they are working on and get them to sign off > is not "encouragement"). > > john > > > --On Saturday, January 10, 2009 14:10 -0500 Theodore Tso > <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote: > >> At least in the linux kernel, quoting a 2-3 sentences of an >> RFC in comments is common practice, even before RFC 5378. It >> is also been done with great frequency in documentation, >> magazine articles and journals, and so on. Fair use takes >> care of this problem, and there I don't think even the most >> insanely paranoid and unreasonable corporate lawyer would >> think that 2-3 sentences quoted in manuals, code, etc., would >> be unreasonable. >> >> Certainly this is something where we have over two decades >> historical practice, and if anyone thinks an IETF contributor >> or company would be suicidially idiotic enough from a Public >> Relations point of view to try to sue someone for using 2-3 >> sentences when this would be pretty clearly fair use, and the >> reputations of said IETF contributor or company would be >> pilloried in the press, I would gently suggest that whoever is >> worried about is greatly disconneted from reality, if they >> were to think about the risks involved. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@xxxxxxxx > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf > _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf