[Standards] XEP licensing

[Joe Hildebrand]

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On Oct 20, 2007, at 12:06 AM, Richard Laager wrote:
>> 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.

Maybe Debian should change *their* policy, then.  If we change for  
them, what happens when some other people come along and tell us that  
the new license doesn't match their needs?

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Joe Hildebrand


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