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

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:

> Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
>
>> Also, RFCs with the new license doesn't include the license template
>> itself, it just reference BCP 78.  So if BCP 78 is updated, perhaps it
>> automatically apply to RFCs that simply reference BCP 78.  I doubt the
>> legality of that too.
>
> Is that comparable to GPLs 'or any later version'?

Perhaps.  It may actually mean "only the latest version" though, the
reference is for BCP 78 and at any given time there is only canonical
BCP 78.  Older versions of the same document doesn't apply,
presumably.

I think this matter should be raised with the IPR WG as well...

Cheers,
Simon