-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 09/12/07 09:16, Russ Allbery wrote: > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> On 09/12/07 05:16, Josselin Mouette wrote: >>> Le mercredi 12 septembre 2007 à 05:04 -0500, Ron Johnson a écrit : > >>>> Which license? I've looked a a few RFCs, and they each seem to have >>>> a different (sometimes non-existent) license. All, though, seem to >>>> say, "Distribution of this memo is unlimited." > >>>> It would be useful to show John and I some specific examples of RFCs >>>> that don't allow any reformatting or translation derivations. > >>> You've just found them. Without explicit permission, they are not >>> permitted. > >> Really? Not in the RFCs I've read. > > This was actually extensively discussed within the IETF and my > understanding of their interpretation of the license is closer to what > Josselin says, not what you're saying. You can excerpt RFCs into other > contexts, but you cannot modify the text or use it as the basis for some > other document without violating the license or reaching some other > arrangement with the IETF, and that includes translations. > >>> You can draft derived versions, but you can't distribute them until >>> they are accepted as new RFCs. > >> Says who? That just doesn't make sense. RFCs are almost never >> written by a single person. > > The IETF reserves the right to work on derivative standards based on RFCs > to itself. You cannot do so outside the IETF without violating the RFC > license.
So you (or your company) must be a member of the IETF to submit a draft RFC? If so, it seems reasonable. > As with the Firefox naming situation, Debian gets a ton of bad press for > this because people seem to intuitively expect Debian to be doing > something strange without actually investigating. The more you > investigate, the more you discover that, actually, the license is just > screwed up and Debian is one of the few organizations that doesn't plug > its ears and ignore it. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG5/9WS9HxQb37XmcRAj7qAKCWqS4+fHdYjGX6vIhFEYmlEjpDygCgwPga bwUvwS7sPE7WSpmG1y1uweE= =FqnK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
