Re: IETF legal boilerplate

Ralph Babel skrev:
> Russ Allbery, quoting some IETF legalese:
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>> [...] the Contributor and each named
>> co-Contributor grant a perpetual, irrevocable,
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> This is likely to be incompatible with § 42 UrhG
> (section 42 of the German copyright law), possibly causing
> problems for contributors subject to German jurisdiction.
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>> [...], royalty-free, [...]
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> This, too, is difficult terrain: see § 32, § 32a UrhG.
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Ralph, can you summarize the difficulty to the IPR list or to the IETF list?

I haven't seen an incompatibility with German law raised before.

                   Harald