Peter Saint-Andre wrote: > It seems that the IETF Trust uses the "Non-Profit Open Software License > 3.0" to license code written as work-for-hire under the auspices of the > IETF (presumably this applies to efforts like the IETF Tools Team). > > The text of the license follows, as extracted from the PDF file linked > to from <http://trustee.ietf.org/licenses.html>. > > Comments are welcome as to whether this license is DFSG-compliant.
At the least, 1(c) seems problematic: > 1) Grant of Copyright License. Licensor grants You a worldwide, > royalty-free, non-exclusive, sublicensable license, for the duration of > the copyright, to do the following: ... > c) to distribute or communicate copies of the Original Work and > Derivative Works to the public, with the proviso that copies of Original > Work or Derivative Works that You distribute or communicate shall be > licensed under this Non-Profit Open Software License or as provided in > section 17(d); (Where 17(d) refers to earlier versions of the license.) Peter -- Peter Saint-Andre https://stpeter.im/
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