At 15:53 30-04-2012, Stephan Wenger wrote:
This subject was also raised by our AD on the codec mailing list. The
statement is about spec text copyright (with the possible exception of the
word "use", which is loaded in this context, see BSD license and implicit
patent grant ambiguity). Insofar, the patent licensing statement received
appear to be irrelevant to this discussion.
Ok.
At 18:40 30-04-2012, Ron wrote:
If this clause becomes a blocker, then we should simply remove it, but in that
case it would be good to have clear reasons why it became a blocker, since the
things you say you fear here, I see as already being prohibited anyway.
The text in Section 10 is ambiguous.
Given all the efforts that went into RFC 6569, it's odd to see the
text being discussed during the Last Call instead of the WGLC.
Regards,
-sm