> From: Artur Hecker > Sent: Friday, 7 November 2003 12:08 AM > i'm sorry to take your time (since it's not really freeradius related). > while i believe to understand the minor differences between the > GPL/OpenSSL licenses, i do not understand why and how e.g. the IETF > standard tracks (like e.g. 2243 or 2289) do not comply to the DFSG? i do > understand the difference to the informational IETF documents as e.g. > rfc2869 which preserve the explicit rights of the author, but why the > standard tracks? why wouldn't it apply to TLS e.g.? would you kindly > explain this?
As far as I understand it, the boilerplate copyright notice and license at the end of all RFCs since somewhere in the 2200's is not DFSG-free. Quick simply, it fails rule #3, (http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines) The license must allow modifications and derived works, and must allow them to be distributed under the same terms as the license of the original software. with the following part of the boilerplate: However, this document itself may not be modified in any way, such as by removing the copyright notice or references to the Internet Society or other Internet organizations, except as needed for the purpose of developing Internet standards in which case the procedures for copyrights defined in the Internet Standards process must be followed, or as required to translate it into languages other than English. Or at least, that's how I read it. It was discussed on the Debian developers mailing list a while ago, and the result was that this boilerpate is not DFSG-free, but the copyright on previous RFCs (which is in a different file, I really should include that in the Debian copyright file) _is_ DFSG-free. If you like, I can dig up the discussion in the archives, or you can look yourself at lists.debian.org under debian-devel... Honestly can't say when it was though, sometime this year. Prolly mid-year, but I'm not sure. > thanks for your time > artur No worries. :-) -- Paul "TBBle" Hampson Bubblesworth Pty Ltd (ABN: 51 095 284 361) [EMAIL PROTECTED] On a sidewalk near Portland State University someone wrote `Trust Jesus', and someone else wrote `But Cut the Cards'. - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
