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Re: Call for comment: <draft-iab-doi-04.txt> (Assigning Digital Object Identifiers to RFCs)

2015-07-02 21:56:16
Simon Josefsson wrote:
Christian de Larrinaga <cdel(_at_)firsthand(_dot_)net> writes:

Any chance of adding some words to the effect that RFCs are free both as
in gratis and in the freedom sense?

Makes sense, but be careful with words.  RFCs aren't free in all freedom
senses, for example you can't even include them in FOSS projects since
RFCs aren't licensed freely enough.


Whooops.  I wasn't aware of any non-intuitive limits to distribution of
newer RFCs as-is.  The original waiver

   The distribution of this memo is unlimited.

seems to have been discontinued somewhere around late 2008.
(rfc5246 aka TLSv1.2 still carries it).

Where is the problem with including (newer) RFCs with implementation
source code for distribution?


-Martin

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