Hello, Do we consider ASN.1 modules (e.g. the specification of AttCertValidityPeriod in rfc 3281) to be code or specification?
On one hand the rfc coyright fixup for "code components" in newer RFCs (post Nov 2008) explicitely includes ASN.1 modules as one of the things being made available under BSD licenses. Which implies that they are code, or at least that somebody thought clarification could not hurt. On the other hand these modules are a core part of the standards the RFCs describe, they are not fundamentally different to e.g. the BNF notation specification of mail messages in rfc 2821. Do we have a strong opinion in Debian about this? It is not uncommon to directly generate C source from ASN.1 modules. We could not do this if we considered the ASN.1 code. (Except for new RFCs and re-licensed RFCs) TIA, cu Andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure'