Re: #1273 How do we usefully define "excerpt"?

[Simon Josefsson <jas at extundo.com>]

John C Klensin <john-ietf at jck.com> writes:

>> I think the discussion so far has convinced me that the
>> appropriate way to handle this is to make the correction in
>> commentary, e.g. "This is specified in the RFC as  BAR =
>> numchar, but I believe that BAR = 1*numchar was meant, and I
>> have implemented accordingly" .  I would obviously suggest
>> putting in an erratum for the RFC as well.
>
> Of course, such commentary is of the nature of a critical review
> and does not raise any of the same copyright issues as
> incorporating the original text in modified form.

Are you referring to US copyright "fair use"?  That doesn't hold
universally...  granting the same, explicit, rights to everyone appear
preferable.

For brief excerpts, such as a 2-3 sentence function API documentation,
I would disagree that the above is the appropriate solution.

/Simon

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