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1. efkin (efkin)'s status on Sunday, 28-Feb-2016 11:47:08 EST efkin

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   !coffee described by RFC2324
   https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2324
   • Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman2)'s status on Sunday, 28-Feb-2016 12:59:15 EST Bob Jonkman

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     • Doug Whitfield
     Nope, the IETF seems to understand copyright perfectly well. They are laying claim to authorship, which in most countries also confers copyright, and reserving all rights. In addition they're using one of their reserved rights to issue a license for unlimited distribution. Because they've reserved all rights they can revoke that license for distribution at any time, although that…
   • Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman2)'s status on Sunday, 28-Feb-2016 13:15:20 EST Bob Jonkman

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     • Doug Whitfield
     I agree, the IETF's forte is not writing copyright licenses. IMHO they'd be better off adopting one of the existing standard licenses such as GFDL or CC. Those have been carefully crafted by professionals skilled in copyright licensing precisely to avoid the ambiguity of applying copyright in order to grant FAIF distribution licenses.