Re: Is the IETF / Debian discussion resolved?
mån 2012-02-27 klockan 16:10 +0100 skrev Thomas Koch:
> Hi,
>
> I've prepared an update to Debian's doc-rfc package and found an 11 years old
> issue[1] whether RFC's can be included in Debians main repo or not. I just
> started using the internet around that time...
>
> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=92810
>
> Do you know, how the discussion went and whether the IETF has somehow changed
> its copyright regulations in a way that would allow Debian to consider it
> free?
Hi. The IETF considered the problem but, alas, the decision was to
continue to publish RFCs under a non-free license.
> I've found RFC 5377 which says in 4.4: "There is no consensus at this time to
> permit the use of text from RFCs in contexts where the right to modify the
> text is required." - Is my interpretation correct that this means RFCs can not
> be modified and redistributed and thus are not DFSG-free?
I believe that is the correct interpretation.
/Simon
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