[ih] Who owns old RFCs ?

Scott O. Bradner sob at sobco.com
Fri Apr 24 13:23:26 PDT 2020


I extracted the text - here it is

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RFC DOCUMENTS
NON-EXCLUSIVE LICENSE
WHEREAS, the undersigned ("Licensor"), alone or jointly with others, is the
author of all or portions of one or more documents in the Request for Comments (RFC)
Series beginning with RFC 1 dated 7 April 1969, which includes the permanent
publications of the IETF, (the "Documents"), and/or the assignee of certain rights
therein, and
WHEREAS, Licensor hereby wishes to grant to the IETF Trust, a Virginia Trust
("Licensee"), without warranty of any kind, a license under any and all copyrights that it
may have in and to such Documents ("Licensor's Rights");
NOW THEREFORE, without limiting the effect of any prior license, assignment
or transfer, Licensor hereby grants to Licensee, under all Licensor's Rights, without
warranty of any kind, and Licensee accepts, a non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable,
worldwide, paid-up, royalty-free right and license retroactive to the date of creation of the
documents, including the right to sublicense, to reproduce, publish, distribute, modify,
translate, excerpt, combine and create derivative works of the Documents and any
portions thereof in any and all media, and otherwise to exploit Licensor's Rights in and to
the Documents and any portions thereof in any manner whatsoever.


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