RFCs - insufficiently free?

RFCs - insufficiently free?

Posted Jul 17, 2003 23:48 UTC (Thu) by jdthood (guest, #4157)
In reply to: RFCs - insufficiently free? by southey
Parent article: RFCs - insufficiently free?

> Cutting and pasting is just plain plagiarism!

It is not plagiarism if the source is acknowledged.
In any case, _credit_ is not the main issue here.

> A new RFC means that that old one is wrong so you just
> end up copying rubbish.

??

> If any person can change the standard at whim then it
> is no longer a standard.

This is a confusion I have seen again and again. Debian's
concern is not that the standard be changeable. It is that
the document be re-usable for other purposes -- like any
other free software.

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