On 02/14/2013 06:43 PM, Tom Callaway wrote: > On 02/11/2013 08:50 AM, Jan Safranek wrote: > >> In section 4.1 are MIB files inside RFCs defined as "code components". >> And in 4.2, BSD is applied to these code components, i.e. MIB files in >> the RFC texts as BSD licensed. Therefore we may distribute these code >> components, i.e. MIB files, as separate files and even modify them if we >> want (and we do, because there are typos in the MIB files). >> >> IMHO while the RFC document is non-free (cannot be modified), the MIB >> files inside are free (and can be modified and distributed separately). > > I concur. I researched this and came to the same conclusion. See: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=901504#c6 > > As long as a copy of the corresponding BSD license is present, this is > not a legal concern. I'm making net-snmp and libsmi updates now. Thanks a lot! I'll ask upstream to include the license in their tarball. Jan _______________________________________________ legal mailing list legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/legal
