Hi Simon, thanks for forwarding this. Simon Josefsson wrote: > Basically, this post is a For-Your-Information note, and while it > doesn't bring up something for discussion on this list, I do think a > license change in the IETF may be interesting to some debian-legal > participants. My sense from the IPR-WG and IETF-discuss conversations is that folks in the IETF don't have a strong interest in making sure that RFCs are DFSG compliant. However, there is a small "out clause", in that contributors may separately license the RFCs they author (since they retain the original rights). Perhaps it makes sense to use that in a productive and creative manner. I would propose: (1) We formulate the recommended text of an information notice that authors can place in their published RFCs. (2) We launch a special repository for "non-RFC RFCs", where RFC authors can upload their separately-licensed specs (not labelled as RFCs) under a DFSG-friendly license. Peter -- Peter Saint-Andre https://stpeter.im/
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