[Fedora-legal-list] Distribution of IETF MIB files

[Jan Safranek]

Hello,

I've got bugs #901504 and #901505 stating that Fedora should not
distribute MIB files generated from IETF RFCs.

Some RFC, e.g. 4293 [1], contains MIB files as part of the RFC text. 1:
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4293

Net-SNMP and libsmi upstream tarball already contains these MIB files
extracted from the RFCs. The 'extraction' is just copy of part of the
RFC with removed page headers / footers.

Now, can Fedora ship these files? IMHO yes, reading RFC 5377, chap. 4.3,
it's IETF's intention to allow such extraction, modification and
distribution. But I am not a lawyer.

The MIB files are considered Code Components as defined at
http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info/ and its license is (probably)
defined at http://trustee.ietf.org/docs/IETF-Trust-License-Policy.pdf

Removing the MIB files from the packages would be very tedious, annoying
and IMHO useless.

Jan