* Thomas Bushnell BSG (tb@becket.net) wrote: > Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> writes: > > I didn't do more than a cursory check, but 30 out of 32 RFCs in the > > OpenLDAP package include this "The Internet Society" copyright statement > > and they look reasonably similar. The other two don't have copyright > > statements but do say: "Distribution of this memo is unlimited." > > 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. Stephen
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