An example of the outbound rights problem

The compiler will not function properly without the headers
so they are in 
fact part of the code...

Todd

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Harald Tveit Alvestrand" <haraldalvestrand.no>
To: "Simon Josefsson" <simonjosefsson.org>
Cc: "Sam Hartman" <hartmans-ietfmit.edu>; <ipr-wgietf.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 1:46 PM
Subject: Re: An example of the outbound rights problem


>
>
> --On 24. juli 2007 21:35 +0200 Simon Josefsson
<simonjosefsson.org> 
> wrote:
>
>>>   IETF contributions often include components
intended to be directly
>>>   processed by a computer.  Examples of these
include ABNF definitions,
>>>   XML Schemas, XML DTDs, XML RelaxNG
definitions, tables of values,
>>>   MIBs, or even classical programming code.
>>
>> I believe it could be argued that a C header file
is not "programming
>> code".  C header files describes an interface,
it normally do not
>> contain any programming code.
>
> I would feel completely ridiculous making such an
argument.
>
> I also dislike the idea of making judgments based on
how source code is 
> organized into files (there's often inline code in C++
.h files, for 
> instance, and Java doesn't have header files as such at
all); I believe 
> the intent of the group was to include anything that's
written in a 
> programming language intended to be processed by a
compiler, and will be 
> happy to take suggestions on how to accurately reflect
that into the text.
>
>             Harald
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