Hi, I came across a curiosity while updating the wine package today. I noticed that upstream wine generates one of their source files from the contents of RFC3454 [0].
There is a tool (tools/make_unicode) that among other things downloads the RFC from rfc-editor.org and generates nameprep.c. That process is done upstream, not in the Debian build system. So, obvious question is whether data generated from something currently considered non-free can itself be considered free? I did a quick search and came up with at least one other instance of a package using RFC3454 this way, libidn [1]. I didn't expand my search to other RFCs, but I suppose it could be somewhat widespread. Best wishes, Mike [0]http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-wine/wine.git/tree/dlls/kernel32/nameprep.c [1]https://gitorious.org/gss/libidn-dpkg/source/9762bcb7158fd9374f6d9bb9a57ca977a6f4f136:lib/rfc3454.c -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CANTw=MMTeDCBM3C5J=miv9v5ddo65_bzv5gnocbd6br8sgt...@mail.gmail.com
