Re: Copying conditions

[Florian Weimer <fw at deneb.enyo.de>]

* Margaret Wasserman:

> While I am most definitely not a lawyer, it is my understanding that 
> it is permissible to quote from copyrighted works as long as they are 
> properly referenced.  I don't think that we should stop people from 
> quoting (and referencing) RFCs, but we should stop people from 
> producing modified and/or extended versions of the original.

In some standardization efforts, it's customary to update standards by
issuing a diff to that standards: "in section 5.2, after the word
"interoperability", insert the words 'and efficiency'".

This is worst possible case: We have a technical description that is
very hard to understand, and the ISOC copyright failed to prevent the
creation of a competing standard.

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