Full_Name: Quanah Gibson-Mount Version: All OS: NA URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/ Submission from: (NULL) (171.66.155.86)
The core.schema file has the following included in it:
## Portions Copyright (C) The Internet Society (1997-2003). ## All Rights Reserved. ## ## This document and translations of it may be copied and furnished to ## others, and derivative works that comment on or otherwise explain it ## or assist in its implementation may be prepared, copied, published ## and distributed, in whole or in part, without restriction of any ## kind, provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph are ## included on all such copies and derivative works. However, this ## document itself may not be modified in any way, such as by removing ## the copyright notice or references to the Internet Society or other ## Internet organizations, except as needed for the purpose of ## developing Internet standards in which case the procedures for ## copyrights defined in the Internet Standards process must be ## followed, or as required to translate it into languages other than ## English. ## ## The limited permissions granted above are perpetual and will not be ## revoked by the Internet Society or its successors or assigns. ## ## This document and the information contained herein is provided on an ## "AS IS" basis and THE INTERNET SOCIETY AND THE INTERNET ENGINEERING ## TASK FORCE DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING ## BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTY THAT THE USE OF THE INFORMATION ## HEREIN WILL NOT INFRINGE ANY RIGHTS OR ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF ## MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
This is causing some unhappiness from the Debian folks, but their final conclusion is that core.schema is not copyrightable under US law:
[snip email 1]
Doesn't the copyright in question apply to the RFC only? AFAICS, core.schema basically reads:
- Part of OpenLDAP, with the following license:
- OpenLDAP license (see license.html)
- Based on an RFC, with the following license:
- RFC license
- Specific RFC attributions
- The schema itself
[snip email 2]
Plus, this is an interface specification if I've ever seen one, and interface specifications are not copyrightable under US law.
[snip email 3]
If this file is a non-copyrightable interface definition, the bug here is the presence of a copyright notice and license statement where there should be none.
If these are correct, then shouldn't this license actually be removed from core.schema?
--Quanah