[License-discuss] Request for feedback: public specification licensing

[Josh Berkus]

On 7/9/24 04:58, Nathan Willis via License-discuss wrote:
> It is specifically for a "functional specification", which individual 
> software implementers might implement separately in their own 
> environments or software stacks, but which (unlike, say, a network 
> protocol) are not going to directly interface with other 
> implementations. And to be usable for free software, naturally (although 
> *not* requiring every implementer to swear to any particular software 
> licensing ethos).

Surely this ground has been covered already by specification 
organizations like the IETF?  What do they do?

-- 
Josh Berkus