Subject: Re: draft-bradner-rfc-extracts-00.txt

From: Nathanael Nerode <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 00:03:52 -0500

[email-masked] wrote:
>More importantly, both the "desert island" and the "dissident" tests presume
>that the people enforcing the license are mindless automatons and would seek
>to enforce it even when it would be unjust or destructive to the aims of the 
>IETF to do so. 

Actually, this is a basic principle of reading licenses.

We cannot rely on the license issuer to remain sane forever.  Given the long 
duration of copyright, if we want rights, we need them explicitly present in 
a written license.  An oral contract isn't worth the paper it's written on, 
as the saying goes.

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