On 02/11/2013 08:50 AM, Jan Safranek wrote: > In section 4.1 are MIB files inside RFCs defined as "code components". > And in 4.2, BSD is applied to these code components, i.e. MIB files in > the RFC texts as BSD licensed. Therefore we may distribute these code > components, i.e. MIB files, as separate files and even modify them if we > want (and we do, because there are typos in the MIB files). > > IMHO while the RFC document is non-free (cannot be modified), the MIB > files inside are free (and can be modified and distributed separately).
I concur. I researched this and came to the same conclusion. See: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=901504#c6 As long as a copy of the corresponding BSD license is present, this is not a legal concern. I'm making net-snmp and libsmi updates now. ~tom == Fedora Project _______________________________________________ legal mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/legal
