IETF changing their IPR policy, not DFSG compliant
All,
The IETF is about to change their IPR policy and turn it into a two-step
process where contributors assign rights to the IETF Trust which then
grant rights to others. The relevant documents are:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ipr-outbound-rights-06.txt
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ipr-3978-incoming-08.txt
The result of this complicated licensing is not DFSG compliant. That
concern has been discussed by the working group behind the documents,
but we failed to gain consensus for making the licensing DFSG compliant.
If you have other concerns with the document, or wish to re-state the
DFSG-problem in a bigger context, the IETF is conducting a last call on
the documents right now, see the announcement below.
There are other parts of those documents which can have consequences for
Debian, for example it discusses more liberal licensing on code-like
parts of documents. It is not clear whether the licensing will be
sufficient clear to meet DFSG, and getting review on that as well may be
useful.
Basically, this post is a For-Your-Information note, and while it
doesn't bring up something for discussion on this list, I do think a
license change in the IETF may be interesting to some debian-legal
participants.
Thanks,
/Simon
Russ Housley <housley@vigilsec.com> writes:
> During the Wednesday Plenary at IETF 71, I gave the IETF community a
> "heads up" on two documents from the IPR WG that were nearing IETF
> Last Call. Both of the documents have now reached IETF Last
> call. The Last Call announcements are attached. Please review and comment.
>
> Russ
>
> == == == == == == == == == ==
>
> To: IETF-Announce <ietf-announce@ietf.org>
> From: The IESG <iesg-secretary@ietf.org>
> Subject: Last Call: draft-ietf-ipr-outbound-rights (Advice to the
> Trustees of the IETF Trust on Rights to be Granted in IETF
> Documents) to Informational RFC
> Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:15:56 -0700 (PDT)
> Cc: ipr-wg@ietf.org
>
> The IESG has received a request from the Intellectual Property Rights WG
> (ipr) to consider the following document:
>
> - 'Advice to the Trustees of the IETF Trust on Rights to be Granted in
> IETF Documents '
> <draft-ietf-ipr-outbound-rights-06.txt> as an Informational RFC
>
> The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits
> final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the
> ietf@ietf.org mailing lists by 2008-04-02. Exceptionally,
> comments may be sent to iesg@ietf.org instead. In either case, please
> retain the beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting.
>
> The file can be obtained via
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ipr-outbound-rights-06.txt
>
> This document is closely related to draft-ietf-ipr-3978-incoming.
> The two documents should be considered as a set. IETF Last Call for
> draft-ietf-ipr-3978-incoming will begin as soon as the next update is
> posted.
>
> IESG discussion can be tracked via
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/public/pidtracker.cgi?command=view_id&dTag=14518&rfc_flag=0
>
> == == == == == == == == == ==
>
> To: IETF-Announce <ietf-announce@ietf.org>
> From: The IESG <iesg-secretary@ietf.org>
> Subject: Last Call: draft-ietf-ipr-3978-incoming (Rights Contributors
> provide to the IETF Trust) to BCP
> Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 07:19:57 -0700 (PDT)
> Cc: ipr-wg@ietf.org
>
> The IESG has received a request from the Intellectual Property Rights WG
> (ipr) to consider the following document:
>
> - 'Rights Contributors provide to the IETF Trust '
> <draft-ietf-ipr-3978-incoming-08.txt> as a BCP
>
> The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits
> final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the
> ietf@ietf.org mailing lists by 2008-04-07. Exceptionally,
> comments may be sent to iesg@ietf.org instead. In either case, please
> retain the beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting.
>
> The file can be obtained via
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ipr-3978-incoming-08.txt
>
> This document is closely related to draft-ietf-ipr-outbound-rights,
> which is already in Last Call. The two documents should be considered
> as a set.
>
> IESG discussion can be tracked via
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/public/pidtracker.cgi?command=view_id&dTag=15855&rfc_flag=0
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