From: Onkar <kernzap@gmail.com>
To: "Rémi Denis-Courmont" <remi@remlab.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Implementing RFCs from IETF
Date: Sun, 06 May 2012 19:45:08 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1336313708.11610.11.camel@oc4748611672.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201205061707.50204.remi@remlab.net>
On Sun, 2012-05-06 at 17:07 +0300, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> Le dimanche 6 mai 2012 16:59:34 Onkar, vous avez écrit :
> > Do RFCs on IETF contain some kind of copyright with the
> > authors (and their respective companies )who have written the RFC which
> > prohibits the RFC from being implemented in the Linux kernel.
>
> Of course not.
>
Thanks for your reply Remi.
> But the copyright license does prevent example code from being copied into the
> kernel (or any other GPL piece), in many cases.
If the RFC proposes some solution to existing problem and this solution
is proposed by some guys , at say CISCO or IBM , then does that solution
have some kind of copyright which prevents people form other companies
from implementing the RFC in the Linux kernel ?
> Also some RFC have IPR separate claims.
>
If possible , can you please give me one example on this as a reference.
Thank you very much.
- Onnm
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-06 13:59 Implementing RFCs from IETF Onkar
2012-05-06 14:07 ` Rémi Denis-Courmont
2012-05-06 14:15 ` Onkar [this message]
2012-05-06 14:28 ` Rémi Denis-Courmont
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