Re: Non-free IETF RFC/I-Ds in,source packages

2008-06-17 Thread Simon Josefsson
Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Russ Allbery wrote: This seems to imply that you no longer have a file named rfc3454.txt? You want to strip all the text out of that file except for the table, but leave the table in the tree still named rfc3454.txt. This would imply understanding

Re: Non-free IETF RFC/I-Ds in,source packages

2008-06-15 Thread Brian May
Russ Allbery wrote: This seems to imply that you no longer have a file named rfc3454.txt? You want to strip all the text out of that file except for the table, but leave the table in the tree still named rfc3454.txt. This would imply understanding what needs to be extracted. For

Re: Non-free IETF RFC/I-Ds in,source packages

2008-06-15 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 11:18 +1000, Brian May wrote: I tried to upload what I have so far to Debian experimental so that others can look at it (I hate being the sole maintainer of such a complicated package). I think this is within the scope of experimental, for anything that is

Re: Non-free IETF RFC/I-Ds in,source packages

2008-06-13 Thread Brian May
Russ Allbery wrote: The text of the RFCs is copyrighted. The mapping tables in the RFCs cannot be under US copyright law, and I believe copyright law in other countries is similar. I'm guessing (I haven't looked closely) that what's happening here is that the build process is generating code

Re: Non-free IETF RFC/I-Ds in,source packages

2008-06-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is it possible to do this without messing around with Makefile.am, which in turn will require rebuilding the automake stuff? My first attempt didn't turn out so well: make[3]: Leaving directory

Re: Non-free IETF RFC/I-Ds in,source packages

2008-06-10 Thread Simon Josefsson
Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No responses? No one cares enough to comment? Lets see if a change in subject helps. Do the files created from the RFCs also have the same restrictive license as the RFCs themselves? The text of the RFCs is

Re: Non-free IETF RFC/I-Ds in,source packages

2008-06-09 Thread Brian May
No responses? No one cares enough to comment? Lets see if a change in subject helps. Do the files created from the RFCs also have the same restrictive license as the RFCs themselves? Brian May wrote: Hello, After messing around with autoconf/automake/libtool stuff for ages, I eventually

Re: Non-free IETF RFC/I-Ds in,source packages

2008-06-09 Thread Russ Allbery
Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No responses? No one cares enough to comment? Lets see if a change in subject helps. Do the files created from the RFCs also have the same restrictive license as the RFCs themselves? The text of the RFCs is copyrighted. The mapping tables in the RFCs

Re: Non-free IETF RFC/I-Ds in source packages

2006-10-11 Thread Simon Josefsson
Gervase Markham [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Simon Josefsson wrote: http://wiki.debian.org/NonFreeIETFDocuments A useful thing to add to that page would be simple instructions on how those authoring IETF documents could make them available under a DFSG-free licence (presumably in parallel to

Re: Non-free IETF RFC/I-Ds in source packages

2006-10-10 Thread Simon Josefsson
Simon Josefsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bug #390664 inspired me to look in source packages for IETF RFC/I-D's too, and the situation seem to be more problematic. I've put a list of packages in testing (as of a few days ago, my mirror is slow) that appear to contain IETF RFC or I-D's at:

Re: Non-free IETF RFC/I-Ds in source packages

2006-10-10 Thread Gervase Markham
Simon Josefsson wrote: http://wiki.debian.org/NonFreeIETFDocuments A useful thing to add to that page would be simple instructions on how those authoring IETF documents could make them available under a DFSG-free licence (presumably in parallel to the IETF one) - perhaps some sample