[Standards] XEP licensing

[Richard Laager]

On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 16:56 -0700, Justin Karneges wrote:
> On Friday 19 October 2007 1:22 pm, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
> > It has been brought to my attention that the current licensing of the
> > XEP documents is not acceptable to Debian, with the result that XEPs
> > (and probably even parts thereof) cannot be included in Debian-based
> > distributions. I will ask about this on the debian-legal list and report
> > back with my findings.
> 
> How are RFCs licensed?  I always thought the XSF policy was very similar to 
> the IETF's.  Can Debian ship RFCs?

No. I remember removing one from EXTRA_DIST in an upstream project so
that the maintainer of the corresponding Debian package wouldn't have to
repackage our tarball after every release. IIRC, the problem was that
the license doesn't allow one to redistribute modified RFCs.

Richard
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