At 08:25 AM 7/20/2009, John C Klensin wrote:
--On Monday, July 20, 2009 14:20 +0200 Julian Reschke
<julian(_dot_)reschke(_at_)gmx(_dot_)de> wrote:
> Julian Reschke wrote:
>> ...
>> 3) If I *extract* ABNF from these documents (such as for the
>> purpose of generating an input file for an ABNF parser), do
>> I need to include the BSD license text? If so, can somebody
>> explain how to do that given the constraints of the ABNF
>> syntax?
>> ...
>
> Explanation: for some reason I thought that the ABNF syntax
> only allows comments that are attached to an ABNF rule; but it
> appears that I was confused.
Independent of that, considering any sequence of ABNF statements
as necessarily "code" goes far beyond the intent of the IPR WG
as I, at least, understood it. If you, as author, want to
identify it as "code", that is your perogative, but this is
about copyright and not patents and, at least IMO, metalanguage,
metasyntax, pseudo-code, etc., are not intrinsically code in the
sense that the WG discussed and intended it.
I agree this is about copyright (not patents). However, your
interpretation of "code" does not align with the words in the
RFC. See Section 4.3 of RFC 5377:
IETF Contributions often include components intended to be directly
processed by a computer. Examples of these include ABNF definitions,
XML Schemas, XML DTDs, XML RelaxNG definitions, tables of values,
MIBs, ASN.1, and classical programming code. ...
Russ
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