Re: FreeBSD has to change its manual because of IETF IPR rules

[todd.glassey at att.net]

Brian - the key point you made was "did they talk to the IETF"... the point is that they didnt obviously. This says everything that needs to be said I think. The question is whether the IPR-WG recommends to people that it actually speak to the IETF about these matters... but since there is no formal membership - who would they talk to, Jorge directly?

Todd

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Brian E Carpenter <brc at zurich.ibm.com>
> Did they think of *talking* to the IETF before these changes? It looks
> as if they have completely misinterpreted both the intent and the actual
> legal meaning of the IETF language.
> 
>      Brian
> 
> Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> > Just to illustrate that the problem is not only with Debian. FreeBSD
> > was apparently unable to keep texts from the RFC in its manual pages
> > (6.0 has been released yesterday) because of restrictive IETF policy:
> > 
> > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.0R/relnotes-i386.html
> > 
> > The following manual pages, which were derived from RFCs and possibly
> > violate the IETF's copyrights, have been replaced: gai_strerror(3),
> > getaddrinfo(3), getnameinfo(3), inet6_opt_init(3),
> > inet6_option_space(3), inet6_rth_space(3), inet6_rthdr_space(3),
> > icmp6(4), and ip6(4).
> > 
> 
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