On 28/01/2015 16:16, John Levine wrote:
>> IANAL (other disclaimers incorporated by hand-waving), but a
>> plain-English reading of this indicated that the text gives
>> permission to modify the text of the template itself.
>
> It does, but I don't see what practical problem this causes.
>
> Templates are functional, so the copyrights on them are pretty thin in
> the first place, and once extracted from the RFC without the rest of
> the RFC text, what do we care? We've allowed modified versions of
> code components for quite a while, and as far as I know that hasn't
> caused any problems for the IETF.
I agree, and in fact my first reaction was to wonder why we don't just
lump templates in with code.
Brian