Simon Josefsson wrote: > Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im> writes: > >> 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. > > I agree. > >> 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. > > Good ideas. I attempt to cover (1) in > <http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-josefsson-free-standards-howto-01>. > > For (2), one approach would be to upload xml source for the documents, > and modify xml2rfc slightly to avoid inserting any IETF related texts, > and have it automatically render the document in various formats. This > would only cover xml though, but converting documents to XML even from > *.txt is easy. (And I noticed the announcement for a rfc2xml tool on > the ietf tools list recently, which could help.) What do you think? Yes, that's what I was thinking. And we can call them the "ONR Series" (Openly Not RFCs) or whatever. > It would be natural for the contents of (2) to be packaged by Debian, if > the documents are useful for documentation inside Debian. (I think at > least RFC 5021 is a candidate for this, that protocol is implement by > Shishi which is also packaged in Debian.) Yes this document series could be packaged by Debian for sure as long as we get the licensing right. ;-) Peter -- Peter Saint-Andre https://stpeter.im/
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