John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu April 10 2008 7:45:33 am Simon Josefsson wrote: >> Severity: serious >> Package: pygopherd >> Version: 2.0.17-0.1 >> User: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Usertags: nonfree-doc rfc >> >> Hi! >> >> This source package contains the following files from the >> IETF under non-free license terms: >> >> pygopherd/_darcs/current/doc/standards/rfc1436.txt >> pygopherd/doc/standards/rfc1436.txt > > Are you sure? > > That file states: > > Status of this Memo > > This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does > not specify an Internet standard. Distribution of this memo is > unlimited. > > It does not bear an IETF copyright, either. > > This does not appear to be the license that the linked resources complain > about, and in fact they state that older RFCs appear to be DFSG-free.
Hm, I checked more carefully, and it seems RFC 1436 was published during the (legally interesting) time frame after the US signed the Berne convention (1989) and before the IETF started adding copyright notices and adding a license. The older RFCs referred to by that link, that may be in the public domain and thus acceptable, are those published before 1989. So RFC 1436 can thus not be claimed to be in the public domain since it was published after 1989. Right? Thus, it needs to have a copyright notice and be released under a DFSG-compatible copyright license. I don't think the above license is DFSG free, but I can't find a discussion about it. It doesn't look like a copyright license at all to me, and in particular doesn't grant you the right to make modified copies. Maybe we could bring it up on debian-legal? Thanks for quick reply! /Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
