mån 2012-02-27 klockan 16:10 +0100 skrev Thomas Koch: > Hi, > > I've prepared an update to Debian's doc-rfc package and found an 11 years old > issue[1] whether RFC's can be included in Debians main repo or not. I just > started using the internet around that time... > > [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=92810 > > Do you know, how the discussion went and whether the IETF has somehow changed > its copyright regulations in a way that would allow Debian to consider it > free?
Hi. The IETF considered the problem but, alas, the decision was to continue to publish RFCs under a non-free license. > I've found RFC 5377 which says in 4.4: "There is no consensus at this time to > permit the use of text from RFCs in contexts where the right to modify the > text is required." - Is my interpretation correct that this means RFCs can > not > be modified and redistributed and thus are not DFSG-free? I believe that is the correct interpretation. /Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
