Re: Obnoxious license

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1) There is no need to put licenses in the RFC at all. In fact, the trust document says clearly that putting license text in RFCs is a bad idea. 2) The trust policy states that when code is extracted from an RFC, it must be marked for attribution, and that the extractor can modify and use the code as they see fit. The license marking is on the extracted code, and is specifically to meet those goals.

THE TRUST IS DOING WHAT WE ASKED THEM TO DO.

3) In order to determine what is code within an RFC, the trust has published a list:
    http://trustee.ietf.org/docs/Code-Components-List-4-23-09.txt
That list includes ABNF.  And XML Schema, and...
4) If you want something in your RFC treated as code, and it is not in that list, then you need to mark it with <CODE BEGINS> <CODE ENDS> 5) The trust as said publicly that they are looking into whether there is a practical way for the person who extracts code from an RFC to use a shorter license in their extraction.

Yours,
Joel

Julian Reschke wrote:
SM wrote:
Hello,

I was discussing RFC 5617 with someone and the person mentioned that the copyright in the middle of the document is obnoxious. The copyright statement for the code is 32 lines while the code (ABNF) is only five lines.

If an author wants to include the statement in a RFC for the sake of completeness, is it possible to have the statement in a paragraph near the end of the document and put in a note before the ABNF to refer to it?

Regards,
-sm

Oh my.

Could somebody clarify what the current situation with respect to ABNF is? Our WG documents (HTTPbis) contain ABNF fragments all over the place, and we're definitively NOT going to insert a copyright statement everywhere.

BR, Julian
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