Re: ipv6calc: IP address assignments as source code

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

Niko Tyni <ntyni@iki.fi> writes:

> For IANA, the data actually is already in Debian main, in the doc-iana
> package.  The e-mail correspondence found in the doc-iana debian/copyright
> file [3] indicates that the "rfc-copyright-story" document [4] applies
> to all IANA documents.  This looks DFSG-free to me, but I'm not sure if
> the information is still current.
...
> [4] http://www.faqs.org/rfc/rfc-editor/rfc-copyright-story

That's not current, the latest version is available from:

http://www.rfc-editor.org/copyright.html

And it is far from DFSG-free, for several reasons.

Sadly, the IETF seems less than responsive on fixing this issue.

/Simon