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

[Tom Callaway]

On 02/11/2013 08:50 AM, Jan Safranek wrote:

> In section 4.1 are MIB files inside RFCs defined as "code components".
> And in 4.2, BSD is applied to these code components, i.e. MIB files in
> the RFC texts as BSD licensed. Therefore we may distribute these code
> components, i.e. MIB files, as separate files and even modify them if we
> want (and we do, because there are typos in the MIB files).
> 
> IMHO while the RFC document is non-free (cannot be modified), the MIB
> files inside are free (and can be modified and distributed separately).

I concur. I researched this and came to the same conclusion. See:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=901504#c6

As long as a copy of the corresponding BSD license is present, this is
not a legal concern. I'm making net-snmp and libsmi updates now.

~tom

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