[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stephen Zander) wrote on 16.04.98 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> More importantly, key items of the debian distribution fail this > requirement, eg Tom Christiansen's documentation that comes with > perl. Here's the current copyright file of doc-rfc: --- snip --- This package was debianized by Kai Henningsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 31 Mar 1997 22:31:39 +0200. It was put together from <ftp://ftp.germany.eu.net/pub/documents/rfc>, <ftp://venera.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc-editor>, and <http://www.isi.edu/cgi-bin/rfc-ed/>. See DEBIAN.how-to-build-this-package. Copyright: (this is rfc-copyright-story in the rfc-editor subdirectory.) "Hi. The Request For Comments (RFC) documents are intended to have wide distribution. 1. Copying and distributing the whole RFC without any changes: 1a. The copying and free redistribution are generally encouraged. 1b. The inclusion of RFCs in other documents and collections that are distributed for a fee is also encouraged, though in this case it is a courtesy (i) to ask the RFC author and (ii) provide the RFC author with a copy of the final document or collection. Anyone can takes some RFCs, put them in a book, copyright the book, and sell it. This in no way inhibits anyone else from doing the same thing, or inhibits any other distribution of the RFCs. 2. Copying and distributing the whole RFC with changes in format, font, etcetera: 2a. The same as case 1 with the addition that a note should be made of the reformatting. 3. Copying and distributing portions of an RFC: 3a. As with any material excerpted from another source, proper credit and citations must be provided. 4. Translating RFCs into other languages: 4a. Since wide distribution of RFCs is very desirable, translation into other languages is also desirable. The same requirements and courtesies should be followed in distributing RFCs in translation as would be followed when distributing RFCs in the original language. --jon." Newer RFCs are under the following copyright: "Full Copyright Statement Copyright (C) The Internet Society (1998). All Rights Reserved. This document and translations of it may be copied and furnished to others, and derivative works that comment on or otherwise explain it or assist in its implementation may be prepared, copied, published and distributed, in whole or in part, without restriction of any kind, provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph are included on all such copies and derivative works. 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. The limited permissions granted above are perpetual and will not be revoked by the Internet Society or its successors or assigns. 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Commercial Reproduction Requests for all other distribution rights, including the incorporation in part or in full of this text or its code into commercial products such as but not limited to books, magazine articles, or CD-ROMs, must be made to perlfaq- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any commercial use of any portion of this 24/Oct/97 perl 5.004, patch 04 2 PERLFAQ(1p) Perl Programmers Reference Guide PERLFAQ(1p) document without prior written authorization by its authors will be subject to appropriate action. Disclaimer This information is offered in good faith and in the hope that it may be of use, but is not guaranteed to be correct, up to date, or suitable for any particular purpose whatsoever. The authors accept no liability in respect of this information or its use. --- snip --- I really think documentation is not ready for the DFSG. MfG Kai -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
