On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 10:10 AM, Thomas Koch <[email protected]> wrote: > 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? > > 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? > > (Please CC me in replies.)
And, also cc the IETF Trust. Regards Marshall > > Thank you, > > Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro > _______________________________________________ > Ipr-wg mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipr-wg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAJNg7V+=cb5cbepwsoh7wemywnn0rqrfv0fryaidrgd3tyf...@mail.gmail.com
