Brian E Carpenter | 14 Aug 2008 00:22
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Re: Last Call for Comments on " Legal Provisions Related to IETFDocuments"

On 2008-08-14 06:10, Harald Alvestrand wrote:
> Ted Hardie wrote:

...
>> I think having a well-known way of including attribution
>> (Comments in the code) is better than a simple request for
>> acknowledgement, as those external to the code tend to
>> get lost in cut-and-pastes.  The bigger issue than attribution
>> for me, though, is that it helps folks know where to feed
>> their comments when things don't work or could work better.
>>
>> Since this is not a limitation on code reuse (in that it doesn't
>> prevent someone from cutting it out if they really want to),
>> I do not personally see any issues with that way forward.
> Neither do I. And the Trust doesn't have to do it - the IESG can add it
> to id-nits.
> Let's do that.
>

+1. It can even go in id-nits immediately, since Bert is
revising it yet again.

    Brian

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