Re: [Trustees] Last Call for Comments: Proposed work-around to the Pre-5378 Problem

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Ray Pelletier <rpelletier@xxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Feb 6, 2009, at 6:46 AM, Henrik Levkowetz wrote:
>
>> One comment, below:
>>
>> On 2009-02-06 06:28 Ed Juskevicius said the following:
>>> The IETF Trustees met via telechat on February 5th to decide on some
>>> proposed revisions to the "Legal Provisions Relating to IETF
>>> Documents"
>>> policy, based on comments received from the community in the last two
>>> weeks.  Please recall this work is being done to provide a work-
>>> around for
>>> authors having the 'pre-5378 problem'.
>>>
>>> The telechat was productive.  The Trustees reached consensus to do
>>> the
>>> following:
>>>
>>> 1)  Clarify the copyright text at the beginning of the BSD license in
>>> Section 4.1 to read as follows:
>>>
>>> Copyright (c) <insert year> IETF Trust and the persons identified
>>> as its
>>> authors.  All rights reserved.
>>
>> This doesn't work for me.  I read 'it' in the sentence above as
>> referring
>> back to "IETF Trust" -- there's nothing else it can refer back to when
>> the code has been lifted out of the enclosing document, and
>> complemented
>> by a license file holding the proposed license.  I propose instead:
>>
>>    Copyright (c) <insert year> IETF Trust and the persons identified
>> as
>>    authors of the code.  All rights reserved.
>
> This works for me.

I don't have a problem with this version.

/Simon
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