Re: #1198 Proposed resolution - Implementation and derivative work

--On onsdag, februar 22, 2006 15:57:07 +0100 Simon Josefsson 
<jas <at> extundo.com> wrote:

> arald Tveit Alvestrand <harald <at> alvestrand.no> writes:
>
>> I think this has gone on long enough.
>>
>> This is a WG Last Call on issue #1198, with a timeout of one week, and
>> I'll close it on February 28.
>>
>> SUGGESTED RESOLUTION:
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>> Implementations of IETF standards that incorporate pieces of IETF
>> documents (such as MIBs or data tables) need to have the right to
>> produce derivative works based on those pieces.
>
> FWIW, I agree with this solution.
>
> I note that some may consider 'text' to be something that you would
> have to incorporate in an implementation in order to implement it.  My
> point is that in the above, it may have been implied that only 'code'
> is applicable for this rule.  I'm not sure if this was intentional.

It was very much intentional that I wrote "pieces" and not "code" - that 
allows us to close this issue without having to solve the "what is code" 
issue first....