From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Onkar Subject: Re: Implementing RFCs from IETF Date: Sun, 06 May 2012 19:45:08 +0530 Message-ID: <1336313708.11610.11.camel@oc4748611672.ibm.com> References: <1336312774.11610.7.camel@oc4748611672.ibm.com> <201205061707.50204.remi@remlab.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?R=E9mi?= Denis-Courmont Return-path: Received: from mail-pb0-f46.google.com ([209.85.160.46]:34159 "EHLO mail-pb0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751672Ab2EFOPN (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 May 2012 10:15:13 -0400 Received: by pbbrp8 with SMTP id rp8so5677074pbb.19 for ; Sun, 06 May 2012 07:15:13 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <201205061707.50204.remi@remlab.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sun, 2012-05-06 at 17:07 +0300, R=E9mi Denis-Courmont wrote:=20 > Le dimanche 6 mai 2012 16:59:34 Onkar, vous avez =E9crit : > > Do RFCs on IETF contain some kind of copyright with the > > authors (and their respective companies )who have written the RFC w= hich > > prohibits the RFC from being implemented in the Linux kernel. >=20 > Of course not. >=20 Thanks for your reply Remi.=20 > But the copyright license does prevent example code from being copied= into the=20 > 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 solutio= n have some kind of copyright which prevents people form other companies from implementing the RFC in the Linux kernel ?=20 > Also some RFC have IPR separate claims. > =20 If possible , can you please give me one example on this as a reference= =2E Thank you very much.=20 - Onnm