Harald, Margaret, and Simon,
Harald wrote
actually that's intended to be permitted by RFC 5377 section 4.2:
and Margaret wrote:
However, I don't think that anyone actually believes that the IETF
will track down people who copy RFC text into comments and sue them or
attempt to get injunctions against them.
(2) Even if the IETF did try to sue you for copying sections of RFC
text into your source code comments, they'd almost certainly lose
So it seems that we actually do have at least some ability to deal with
comment-style use of RFCs fragments in free software. Simon, do you see
any residual issues that we need to solve, or were your concerns in
areas other than comments?
Jari
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