Re: doc only packages
bruce@va.debian.org wrote on 14.01.98 in <[🔎] 19980114224414.25029.qmail@va.debian.org>:
> > Is it necessary that we're allowed to change the content of documents in
> > main? I would like to package the standard documents from W3, but they
> > don't allow to change the content. And this makes sense, because this
> > documents are standards.
>
> Can you point me to the license statement? I will take it up with the
> W3 chair.
I believe it's also true for RFCs - translations and reformatting are
explicitely allowed (as well as making money from them), but that's about
it.
And with standards, I do think that that is reasonable. (And I seriously
doubt you'll get any standards organization to agree to anything
different.)
Oh, wait, newer RFCs all contain an explicit copyright, as follows - what
do you think of that one? Personally, I believe it does everything that's
actually neeed, and we shouldn't ask for more.
B. Full Copyright Statement
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