Re: IETF legal boilerplate

Ralph Babel <[email protected]> Wed, 7 Jan 2009 18:07:52 +0100 (CET)

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Russ Allbery, quoting some IETF legalese:

> [...] the Contributor and each named
> co-Contributor grant a perpetual, irrevocable,

This is likely to be incompatible with Â§ 42 UrhG
(section 42 of the German copyright law), possibly causing
problems for contributors subject to German jurisdiction.

> [...], royalty-free, [...]

This, too, is difficult terrain: see Â§ 32, Â§ 32a UrhG.