On Thu, 15 Aug 2013 22:50:21 +0200 Luciano Bello wrote: > Please include me in CC, I'm not subscribed to the list Done. > > Hi there, Hi Luciano! > I know that this topic was brought up in the past. But it is time for a > proper resolution, so here I go again. > > IEEE publishes two files, one is "Organizationally Unique Identifier" (OUI) > and other one with "Individual Address Block" (IAB) in the following addresses: > http://standards.ieee.org/develop/regauth/iab/public.html > http://standards.ieee.org/develop/regauth/oui/public.html [...] > """Please be advised that the IEEE does not authorize the use of third party > extrapolation [...] "third party > extrapolation" is the distribution of the public listing by anyone other than > the IEEE""" In other words, they do *not* want anyone else to re-distribute those files, not even in unmodified form! Or am I misinterpreting something? > > The situation is quite ridiculous. Parts of those files are everywhere, > including many packages. Even many kernels like the OpenBSD one include > information from it. And we *are* distributing that information already. What a mess! You should really explain the IEEE that they are heavily hurting several Free Software projects by forbidding the re-distribution and the modification of those two files! Please try and persuade them that those two files should be published in a DFSG-free manner... [...] > Notice that they also said: """it is heavily encouraged that you link to > the database for look-up rather than programming.""" so it would be possible, in > principle, to make a package to download it (a la flashplugin-nonfree package). > But in that case should it go to non-free? Should every packaging using those > files end up in contrib? I am afraid that this would be the result of such a strategy... :-( Bye. -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/frx-gpg-key-transition-2010.txt New GnuPG key, see the transition document! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE
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