#1198 Proposed resolution

headers Harald Tveit Alvestrand | 23 Feb 11:49

--On 22. februar 2006 14:39 -0800 Don Armstrong <don <at> debian.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
>> SUGGESTED RESOLUTION:
>
> [...]
>
>> Implementations of IETF standards that do not incorporate such
>> pieces do not need the right to produce such derivative works.
>
> This appears to be a tautology. That is, works that do not incorporate
> pieces are not derivative works, and therefore don't need any
> permision.

I think it's a tautology, but Todd Glassey seems to think that it is not. 
The Last Call is intended to verify that the WG is OK with considering it 
to be a fact (whether it's a tautology or not is not something we need to 
decide, I think).

> Alternatively, the resolution is attempting to limit the extractable
> part of IETF standards to specific portions of the standard to be
> determined later, and forestall any further discussion on allowing the
> larger portions of the work to be used as a derivative work.
>
> If the latter is the case, I suggest removing it from the resolution,
> as it's not clear that we've come to a consensus on that point;[1] if
> the former is the case, I suggest removing it from the resolution, as
> it is essentially a no-op.

That's a different issue, as I commented to Simon, and one which I'm 
painfully aware that we haven't got a resolution on.

                   Harald

Re: #1198 Proposed resolution - Implementation and derivative work