netdev - Re: Implementing RFCs from IETF

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Message-Id: <201205061707.50204.remi@remlab.net>
Date:	Sun, 6 May 2012 17:07:49 +0300
From:	"Rémi Denis-Courmont" <remi@...lab.net>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Implementing RFCs from IETF

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.

But the copyright license does prevent example code from being copied into the 
kernel (or any other GPL piece), in many cases.

Also some RFC have IPR separate claims.

-- 
Rémi Denis-Courmont
http://www.remlab.net/
http://fi.linkedin.com/in/remidenis
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