On 12/02/2009 04:41 PM, Florian Weimer wrote: > Some of the example RFCs are non-free under Debian's policy. Some > parts of contrib were not DFSG-compliant, either, and if there were > parts that were free software, I simply missed them.
contrib/alex.rousskov/xml2rfcpp.pl is a < 4K perl script clearly
indicated as having been released into the public domain (i know PD has
some legal ambiguity but the intent here seems clear to me).
The remaining material in contrib comes from three authors: Pekka
Savola, Fred Baker, and Rob Austein. I corresponded with all three of
them by e-mail to ask about their contributions, and got a positive
response from each of them that their work is free for any use, freely
redistributable, freely modifiable, and that modifications are also
freely redistributable.
The drafts of the update to 2629 (draft-mrose-writing-rfcs.*) are by the
same author as the rest of the package, and so presumably fall under
LICENSE, so i think we're ok there.
That leaves only the rights for the boilerplate that you're working on
getting granted from the IETF Trust keeping the whole upstream package
out of main. There doesn't seem to be a need for a re-packaged upstream
tarball, from what i can tell.
I've prepared (and am using) a package of 1.34, and would be happy to
offer it to you, or to upload it to debian myself, if you'd prefer.
Let me know what the best way is to move forward on this.
Regards,
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