Re: [GNU-linux-libre] RFCs and FSDG

[Sam Geeraerts]

Op Thu, 4 Apr 2013 22:45:12 GMT
schreef address@hidden (Karl Berry):

> To my knowledge, it has always been the analysis that RFC's and
> similar (C standards, POSIX standards, W3C standards, just about any
> kind of official standard) are not ok for free distros.  Because they
> are "information for practical use" (term from
> http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html)
> but they do not typically allow modification, just verbatim
> redistribution.

I interpret that license for the text the same way.

> Which leaves many free software packages (not just distros) in the
> position of implementing standards which they are not allowed to
> distribute.  Bizarre and unwelcome IMHO, but that seems to be the
> consequence.

I remember from looking at the SHA-1 bug [1] that at least the code
in recent RFC's is often permissively licensed, so at least we have
that.

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=643703