Re: ipv6calc: IP address assignments as source code

2006-06-05 Thread Andrew Donnellan
I wish mailing lists had moderation like Slashdot. -1 Flamebait. On 6/3/06, Marco d'Itri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. The C header files containing the address assignments in the tarball are not source code in the GPL sense, ie. 'the preferred form of the work for

Re: ipv6calc: IP address assignments as source code

2006-06-04 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 11:49:50PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote: The ipv6calc upstream tarball database directory contains a README saying: Because of unknown license issues, the database files aren't included in source tarball (cleanup by make distclean), but will be retrieved on make Thus

Re: ipv6calc: IP address assignments as source code

2006-06-03 Thread Marco d'Itri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. The C header files containing the address assignments in the tarball are not source code in the GPL sense, ie. 'the preferred form of the work for making modifications'. This means that we're technically violating the GPL distributing the ipv6calc package in

Re: ipv6calc: IP address assignments as source code

2006-06-01 Thread Nathanael Nerode
I can't answer most of these questions. But you will probably be helped by the fact that databases, as mere collections of facts, are usually *not copyrightable*, certainly not in the US. So these documents are most likely in the public domain. I believe this is the way to go: unless there

Re: ipv6calc: IP address assignments as source code

2006-05-31 Thread Simon Josefsson
Niko Tyni [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For IANA, the data actually is already in Debian main, in the doc-iana package. The e-mail correspondence found in the doc-iana debian/copyright file [3] indicates that the rfc-copyright-story document [4] applies to all IANA documents. This looks