Received: July 8, 2002
From: "Malin Gullstrand (EAB)" <Malin.Gullstrand@era.ericsson.se>


License statement IETF- hmipv6

PATENT LICENSE UNDERTAKING 

In the MobileIP Working Group in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the proposal "Hierarchical mobility management in IPv6" (draft-ietf-mobileip-hmipv6-06.txt), dated July 2002, has been made (July 5 2002). 
In the following, said submission and any future revision of said submission is referred to as "the hmipv6 submission". 

Ericsson's general patent license statement (http://www.ietf.org/ietf/IPR/ERICSSON-General) also applies to the hmipv6
submission. 

In addition, for the hmipv6 submission, if said submission is included in an IETF 
standard and Ericsson has patents that are essential to the implementation of such 
included submission in said standard, Ericsson is prepared to grant - on the basis
of reciprocity -a paid up, nonexclusive, royalty free license on such patents for
the purpose of implementing said standard, if and only if practiced under any 
software distributed under the present terms of the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE 
(http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/gpl.html) or practiced under any operating system 
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kernel, device drivers and libraries necessary to run a program - are distributed 
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(http://www.opensource.org/osd.html). 

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