> From: Artur Hecker > Sent: Friday, 7 November 2003 8:52 PM > just a thought to it: > > > As far as I understand it, the boilerplate copyright notice and license > > at the end of all RFCs since somewhere in the 2200's is not DFSG-free. > > > > Quick simply, it fails rule #3, (http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines) > > > > The license must allow modifications and derived works, and > > must allow them to be distributed under the same terms as the > > license of the original software. > > > > with the following part of the boilerplate: > > > > However, this > > document itself may not be modified in any way, such as by removing > > the copyright notice or references to the Internet Society or other > > Internet organizations, except as needed for the purpose of > > developing Internet standards in which case the procedures for > > copyrights defined in the Internet Standards process must be > > followed, or as required to translate it into languages other than > > English.
> > Or at least, that's how I read it. It was discussed on the Debian developers > > mailing list a while ago, and the result was that this boilerpate is not > > DFSG-free, but the copyright on previous RFCs (which is in a different file, > > I really should include that in the Debian copyright file) _is_ DFSG-free. [trim] > so, i personally still don't get it, but i understand that if debian > policy has been defined such as not to accept the RFCs, we can't do much > about it... well - we are not going to have a lot of up-to-date debian > software soon, are we? kind of suicide statement for me. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200307/msg00787.html /""""\ <=== Still closed. :-) |\____/| | WORMS| | | \____/ -- Paul "TBBle" Hampson Bubblesworth Pty Ltd (ABN: 51 095 284 361) [EMAIL PROTECTED] On a sidewalk near Portland State University someone wrote `Trust Jesus', and someone else wrote `But Cut the Cards'. - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
