Rights Contributors Provide to the IETF Trust
RFC 5378, “Rights Contributors Provide to the IETF Trust”, is a Best Current Practice document published in November 2008 by S. Bradner, J. Contreras. It updates RFC 2026. It obsoletes RFC 3978, RFC 4748. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.
Abstract
The IETF policies about rights in Contributions to the IETF are designed to ensure that such Contributions can be made available to the IETF and Internet communities while permitting the authors to retain as many rights as possible. This memo details the IETF policies on rights in Contributions to the IETF. It also describes the objectives that the policies are designed to meet. This memo obsoletes RFCs 3978 and 4748 and, with BCP 79 and RFC 5377, replaces Section 10 of RFC 2026. This document specifies an Internet Best Current Practices for the Internet Community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements.
What “Best Current Practice” means
Documents the IETF community's recommended operational or procedural practice rather than a protocol specification.
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