Re: non free IETF's RFC documents in .orig.tar.gz
Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> writes:
> > That phrase isn't actually a copyright license; it's a declaration
> > that the RFC isn't classified. Because the Internet protocols were
> > originally done under the aegis of the Defense Advanced Research
> > Projects Agency, it was necessary to mark such things as not
> > classified, and that's done with the phrase in question.
>
> Ah, alright, well, my initial comment of 'no copyright statement' is
> correct then. If the RFC was actually written by the US Gov't it's
> possible that it's actually in the public domain.. Even so though,
> probably be best to not distribute such unless we're sure.
Case by case here. And the Internet Society is against modification,
whether it's actually legally permitted or not, so it may be hard to
get a straight answer.
But, since RFCs are available elsewhere always, it's easier to just
not distribute them. We get the stupid thing of having N different
packages in debian that all put RFC 822 in /usr/share/doc.
Pointless.
In my opinion, we should have a Policy statement that prohibits
putting RFCs in /usr/share/doc, and we can have an rfc package that
includes the ones that we can distribute and that people want.
Thomas
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