It appears that John Levine <johnl@xxxxxxxxx> said: >It appears that Salz, Rich <rsalz@xxxxxxxxxx> said: >>> The point of <CODE BEGINS> and <CODE ENDS> is to be clear that it can be copied into an implementation. Doe you envision the pseudocode being put in the code, even as comments? >> >>I can see that copying it into an implementation as comments could be very useful, so yes. > >Urrgh. The TLP says that the code license applies to "components >intended to be directly processed by a computer". That doesn't >include pseudo-code. But ... > >The code license requires that you include the three paragraph Revised >BSD license, while the rule for text is that the excerpt must be >copied verbatim with "all IETF legends, legal notices and indications >of authorship contained in the original IETF RFC." > >In this case I think you're better off treating it as text. The only >advantage of the code license is that you can modify the code, but it >doesn't sound like that's an issue here. Replying to myself, if someone started with your pseudocode and wrote an equivalent in a real programming language, I'd say that's not the text from the draft, even if it shares some variable names, so I wouldn't worry about it. R's, John
