Hi Bastian,

On Tue, 15 Sep 2026 14:23:11 +0200 Bastian Germann <[email protected]> wrote:
> Source: tcpdump
> Version: 4.99.6-2
> Severity: serious
> 
> The copyright file is missing documentation for print-sunrpc.c,
> rpc_auth.h, and rpc_msg.h. In the packaged version they are licensed
> under non-free Sun RPC license but upstream has relicensed them to
> BSD-3-Clause at
> https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/b4c1686936096a305faadc866333c11b81e3c2f9
> 
> Please document that you are choosing to distribute under the new
> license terms.

The commit you are referencing is on upstream's master branch only, not
on the tcpdump-4.99 branch. Hence, the source Debian uses has not been
relicensed yet.

I opened a ticket upstream [1] adressing the issue.


[1] https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/issues/1472

Cheers,
Sven

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