On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 11:36 PM, Michael Gilbert wrote: > 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].
It looks like what they do in libidn is claim that the data lacks originality and then reduce the RFC itself to the raw data after some semi legal analysis [2]. Best wishes, Mike [2]https://gitorious.org/gss/libidn-dpkg/source/9762bcb7158fd9374f6d9bb9a57ca977a6f4f136:doc/specifications/rfc3454.txt -- 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=MOHYKy8ozQRe8NVkXu76SSAA9n=hOL2i6S8=kerezd...@mail.gmail.com
