Re: I want doc-rfc in Woody! (license issues)
On Sunday 3 March 2002 15:28, Christian Hammers wrote:
> Hello
>
> I understand that the latest RFCs have a license that might probably
> be intended to, but clearly be interpreted as _not_ to comply with the
> DFSG. (See
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=92810&repeatmerged=yes)
>
> If this interpretation is general consensus between the wise men of
> debian-legal then maybe the DPL should mail ISC if they change their
> license or at least clarify it, as proposed in the bug report.
>
> Anyway, as I don't like to see this package dropped from woody I propose
> that the maintainer, or I (as NMU) simple re-uploads the package into
> non-free. I know that then it's officially not "in Debian", too, but at
> least most distributers and FTP mirrors will carry it.
Would indeed be strange that specifications of many protocols/etc used by many
Debian packages itself would not be part of Debian+extras.
Egon
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