Freeness of code automatically generated from RFCs?
Hi,
I came across a curiosity while updating the wine package today. I
noticed that upstream wine generates one of their source files from
the contents of RFC3454 [0].
There is a tool (tools/make_unicode) that among other things downloads
the RFC from rfc-editor.org and generates nameprep.c. That process is
done upstream, not in the Debian build system.
So, obvious question is whether data generated from something
currently considered non-free can itself be considered free?
I did a quick search and came up with at least one other instance of a
package using RFC3454 this way, libidn [1].
I didn't expand my search to other RFCs, but I suppose it could be
somewhat widespread.
Best wishes,
Mike
[0]http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-wine/wine.git/tree/dlls/kernel32/nameprep.c
[1]https://gitorious.org/gss/libidn-dpkg/source/9762bcb7158fd9374f6d9bb9a57ca977a6f4f136:lib/rfc3454.c
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