cvs commit: src Makefile.inc1 src/crypto/openssh sshd.c src/etc Makefile src/etc/gss Makefile mech qop src/etc/mtree BSD.include.dist BSD.root.dist src/gnu/usr.bin/cvs/cvs Makefile src/include Makefile gssapi.h src/include/gssapi Makefile gssapi.h ...

[Doug Rabson]

On Monday 02 January 2006 01:14, Hiroki Sato wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Doug Rabson <dfr at FreeBSD.org> wrote
>   in <200512291440.jBTEeMt7052684 at repoman.freebsd.org>:
>
> df> dfr         2005-12-29 14:40:22 UTC
> df>
> df>   FreeBSD src repository
> df>
> df>   Modified files:
> df>     .                    Makefile.inc1
> df>     crypto/openssh       sshd.c
> df>     etc                  Makefile
> df>     etc/mtree            BSD.include.dist BSD.root.dist
> df>     gnu/usr.bin/cvs/cvs  Makefile
> df>     include              Makefile
> df>     kerberos5/lib/libgssapi Makefile
> (snip)
> df>   Log:
> df>   Add a new extensible GSS-API layer which can support GSS-API
> plugins, df>   similar the the Solaris implementation. Repackage the
> krb5 GSS mechanism df>   as a plugin library for the new
> implementation. This also includes a df>   comprehensive set of
> manpages for the GSS-API functions with text mostly df>   taken from
> the RFC.
>
>  Are these RFC derived manual pages legally safe?  Recently we
> replaced our IPv6 related manual pages from KAME project because most
> of them reuse RFC text as manual pages and IETF rights in
> contribution (RFC 3978) does not permit to produce a derivative work
> except for IETF or ISOC.  So, I think we have a consensus that the
> RFC license is incompatible with the BSD license.

The copyright statement for this particular RFC reads as follows:


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I take the 'in whole or in part' phrase as allowing the kind of copying 
that I performed while writing the manpages. The above copyright notice 
is preserved in each and every manpage. I will also note that the 
Solaris manpages for GSS-API have been derived from the same text as 
can be clearly seen by reading a representative selection. I don't have 
the Solaris manpage source so I can't tell what copyright they contain.