Martin Quinson wrote: > The Requests for Comments (RFCs) form a series of notes, started in 1969, > about the Internet (originally the ARPANET). The notes discuss many aspects > of computer communication, focusing on networking protocols, procedures, > programs, and concepts but also including meeting notes, opinion, and > sometimes humor. See RFC2026 (in package rfc-bcp) for more information. > . > This package contains a tool called rfc which can be used to search the > RFCs about a given port number, a given protocol, arbitrary text or even > perl regexps. If you have the rfc-* packages installed, it will search > there, but if not, it will connect to the internet to retrieve the RFC > index and work on it. Excellent. A much nicer solution than including giant masses of non-free documentation in debian. Have you considered adding some form of caching facility, for offline use? doc-rfc could be considered a kind of solution to this, but I'd rather just be able to cache the few RFCs I regularly refer to, and not the entire set of them. > Please note that this description is not correct until my new version of > the rfc package gets uploaded to the archive. But I don't exepect the > rfc-tool to hit the archive before the data RFC packages. At the moment, the whole doc-rfc situation seems quite up-in-the-air. Since the maintainer is active, it is not appropriate for you to be taking it over, but it's unfortunate that the maintainer ignored your NMU and may be ignoring your suggestions for the package. Maybe it would be better to not block this excellent idea for a package on the whole doc-rfc mess, and make it be able to use doc-rfc for now, if that's possible. If you need a sponsor for this, I will probably do so, contingent on looking at the package. > Likewise, the licence for now is: > ############################################################################# > # Feel free to redistribute as long as you keep this header in tact. > # http://www.dewn.com/rfc/ > # Please let me know if you find this useful, I'd love to hear about it! > # rfc@dewn.com > ############################################################################# > I contacted upstream to clarify it. That's not free. It does not allow modification (of the program; it's fine that the "header" containing the copyright be unmodifiable), and it does not allow distribution for a fee. If you can't get this clarified, this does not seem at first glance to be an especially hard program to rewrite. -- see shy jo
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