Re: Effort to change IETF's copying conditions for RFCs

[Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>]

* Peter Samuelson:

>> * Simon Josefsson:
>> >         The Contributor grants third parties the right to
>> > 	copy and distribute the Contribution, with or without
>> > 	modification, in any medium, without royalty.  If the
>> > 	Contribution is modified, any claims of endorsement or
>> > 	official status by the IETF or ISOC must be removed.
>
> [Florian Weimer]
>> Sure, but this might not be acceptable to ISOC, which might want to
>> see a "Portions Copyright (C) 200x The Internet Society" in derived
>> works.
>
> I don't see a conflict there.  A copyright notice is not a claim of
> endorsement or official status - it's particularly clear that this is
> not the case if only "portions" are copyrighted by some standards body.

I didn't mean that, sorry.

The potential problem I see is that Simon's new permission does not
require attribution at all, not even the plain copyright statement.