Possible spnego licensing problem

[Mukund Sivaraman]

Hi Israel

On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 03:05:43AM -0500, israel shahak wrote:
> The file spnego.asn1 in lib/dns appears to be non-free. It says to
> look at RFC 4178 for the full legal notice and RFC 4178 is under a
> non-free license. The file spnego.asn1 is also used to generate other
> files.

The contents of the file are taken (adapted) from here:
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4178#page-16

IETF has published RFC 3978 about "IETF Rights in Contributions":
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3978

From this:

> 3.3.  Granting of Rights and Permissions
> 
>    By submission of a Contribution, each person actually submitting the
>    Contribution, and each named co-Contributor, is deemed to agree to
>    the following terms and conditions, and to grant the following
>    rights, on his or her own behalf and on behalf of the organization
>    the Contributor represents or is sponsored by (if any) when
>    submitting the Contribution.
> 
> 
>    a. To the extent that a Contribution or any portion thereof is
>       protected by copyright and other rights of authorship, the
>       Contributor, and each named co-Contributor, and the organization
>       he or she represents or is sponsored by (if any) grant a
>       perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free, world-wide
>       right and license to the ISOC and the IETF under all intellectual
>       property rights in the Contribution:

[snip]

>       (E) to extract, copy, publish, display, distribute, modify and
>           incorporate into other works, for any purpose (and not limited
>           to use within the IETF Standards Process) any executable code
>           or code fragments that are included in any IETF Document (such
>           as MIB and PIB modules), subject to the requirements of
>           Section 5 (it also being understood that the licenses granted
>           under this paragraph (E) shall not be deemed to grant any
>           right under any patent, patent application or other similar
>           intellectual property right disclosed by the Contributor under
>           [RFC3979]).

		Mukund
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