Re: Licensing issues with libsnmp-base and libsmi2-common
On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 10:41 +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I would like to get some advice with an important licensing issue with
> libsnmp-base and libsmi2-common. Both of them are shipping MIB that are
> quite essential and would make most of the utils relying on them unusable
> without them. Both of them do NOT have any mention of those in
> debian/copyight. At least, most of those MIB are non-free because
> copyrighted by IETF and released under the same license as corresponding
> RFC.
If I understand correctly these MIBs are interface definitions, which
are generally considered not copyrightable. Any comments in them might
have to be removed though.
Ben.
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