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Re: Simplified BSD License for Code Components and linux GPL kernel

by Brian E Carpenter-2 :: Rate this Message:

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Of course, this only applies if you are actually cutting and pasting
code from the RFC. You can write new code to implement the RFC under
any license you want.

    Brian

On 2010-02-11 11:54, Russ Housley wrote:

> Alex:
>
> The intent was to find a license that would permit the code to be used
> as-in in any environment with attribution.  If that goal has not been
> achieved, please explain the details of the problem.
>
> Russ
>
> On 2/10/2010 1:46 PM, Alexandru Petrescu wrote:
>> Hi IPR WG,
>>
>> I have interest in licensing and IPR of the technology in RFCs.
>>
>> I recently stumbled on the RPL protocol WG item draft (in the RoLL WG,
>> Routing Over Low power and Lossy networks) and worried about "Code
>> Components" in the boilerplate.
>>
>> Could one implement RPL in a linux kernel?
>>
>> Knowing that linux kernel is mostly GPL, avoiding BSD, and that I see
>> the word BSD in the bolierplate.
>>
>> If I may be missing something - sorry,
>>
>> Alex
>>
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