HTTP/1.1 RFC copyright statement

David Van Horn dvanhorn at cs.uvm.edu
Fri Sep 17 16:08:48 UTC 2004


Alex Rousskov wrote:
>     RFC 2616 is a protocol specification, a piece of documentation, not 
> software. AFAICT, OSD does not apply to documentation. OSD scope is 
> limited to software:
> 
>     * http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php
>     The distribution terms of open-source software must comply
>     with the following criteria: ...

And if it were applied to a specification that included a reference 
implementation, would it conform to the OSD?

Thanks,
David



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