On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 09:51:51PM +0100, Måns Rullgård wrote: > Noèl Köthe <noel@debian.org> writes: > > Hello debian-legal and openldap maintainers, > > the upstream kolabd package includes rfc2739.schema: > > http://kolab.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs-kolab.cgi/server/kolabd/kolabd/rfc2739.schema?rev=1.1.1.1&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup > > kolabd was rejected by ftpmaster because of this schema license text > > (this schema is now removed but it would be better to get it included > > again): > > ... > > 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. > > ... > > "document itself may not be modified in any way" is the main point. The > > following are examples and more information. It looks like its just a > > copy of a RFC license e.g. ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2821.txt > IMHO permission to modify standards is uninteresting. The document is > only useful in it's original form anyway. Schema files are *not* documentation. They are functional components of the LDAP server. This is a nice example of why the current IETF licensing is broken. OTOH, if the schema file is reduced to only those non-creative parts (i.e., comments stripped, normalized case, sorted), I'm not sure copyright would still apply. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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