Re: Internet Society's RFC license: DFSG-free or not?

2001-09-04 Thread Sam Hartman
It might be worth going back to Internet Society and asking if the qualification on derivative works is intended to be operative or informative. Remember you are dealing with a group that uses the term request for comments to cover anything from reports of network outages many years ago to the

Re: Internet Society's RFC license: DFSG-free or not?

2001-09-04 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 02:05:00AM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote: It might be worth going back to Internet Society and asking if the qualification on derivative works is intended to be operative or informative. Remember you are dealing with a group that uses the term request for comments to cover

Internet Society's RFC license: DFSG-free or not?

2001-09-03 Thread Branden Robinson
reopen 92810 thanks On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 02:03:14PM -0500, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: * Bogus report: Copyright is clearly DFSG-free: This document and translations of it may be copied and furnished to others, and derivative works that comment on or otherwise explain it