On Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 12:33:21PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > RFC authors do it all the time, by issuing updates to existing RFC > documents. They say "Do it like this, except for this, this, and this".
This argument would suggest that any unmodifiable, freely-distributable document is free. You can reference *any* document in this way. It's certainly not similar to software patches. (And I believe many people on this list consider the "patches" exception to have been an error.) There's nothing free about being forced to do this. -- Glenn Maynard
