On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 3:28 PM Vincent Manis <xxxxxx@telus.net> wrote:

I have been working on a formal R7RS-Large Red document, which is
intended to be a precise specification of the libraries included in
the Red Edition. I have taken the various SRFIs, converted them to
LaTeX, and am in the process of trying to make everything consistent.

Thank you for your work on this.

 

   * UNRESOLVED: the original SRFIs each contain a copyright notice of
     the form “Copyright © 20xx, YYY. All rights reserved.” This notice
     technically makes the distribution of this document illegal!
     Ideally, I believe that R$^7$RS-Large should be placed essentially
     in the public domain, as was R$^7$RS-Small (which makes the
     statement “We intend this report to belong to the entire Scheme
     community, and so we grant permission to copy it in whole or in
     part without fee.”)

SRFI Editor here.  I don't understand this comment at all.  You've quoted ony the first line of the copyright notice, not the three paragraphs that always immediately follow it.  They describe the license on the SRFI "software and associated documentation files," and that license certainly does not make distribution of the document illegal.  In fact, it does the opposite.  Here is the full license:

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

 

The above copyright notice and this permission notice (including the next paragraph) shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

 

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.  IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.