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

[Jan Safranek]

On 02/14/2013 06:43 PM, Tom Callaway wrote:
> 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.

Thanks a lot!

I'll ask upstream to include the license in their tarball.

Jan