From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "=?iso-8859-15?q?R=E9mi?= Denis-Courmont" Subject: Re: Implementing RFCs from IETF Date: Sun, 6 May 2012 17:07:49 +0300 Message-ID: <201205061707.50204.remi@remlab.net> References: <1336312774.11610.7.camel@oc4748611672.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE To: netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from oyp.chewa.net ([91.121.6.101]:60872 "EHLO oyp.chewa.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752750Ab2EFOHw convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 May 2012 10:07:52 -0400 Received: from basile.localnet (ip6-localhost [IPv6:::1]) by oyp.chewa.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B41882019E for ; Sun, 6 May 2012 16:07:31 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <1336312774.11610.7.camel@oc4748611672.ibm.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 whi= ch > prohibits the RFC from being implemented in the Linux kernel. Of course not. But the copyright license does prevent example code from being copied i= nto the=20 kernel (or any other GPL piece), in many cases. Also some RFC have IPR separate claims. --=20 R=E9mi Denis-Courmont http://www.remlab.net/ http://fi.linkedin.com/in/remidenis