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Severity: serious
Package: heimdal
Version: 1.2.dfsg.1-1
User: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Usertags: nonfree-doc rfc
Hi!
This source package contains the following files from the
IETF under non-free license terms:
heimdal-1.2/lib/wind/rfc3454.txt
heimdal-1.2/lib/wind/rfc3492.txt
The license on RFC/I-Ds is not DFSG-free, see:
* http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=199810
* http://release.debian.org/removing-non-free-documentation
* http://wiki.debian.org/NonFreeIETFDocuments
The lenny release policy says binary and source packages must each be free:
* http://release.debian.org/lenny/rc_policy.txt
The severity is serious, because this violates the Debian policy:
* http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#s-dfsg
There are (at least) three ways to fix this problem. In order of
preference:
1. Ask the author of the RFC to re-license the RFC under a free
license. A template for this e-mail request can be found at
http://wiki.debian.org/NonFreeIETFDocuments
2. Remove the non-free material from the source, e.g., by re-packaging
the upstream archive and adding 'dfsg' to the Debian package
version name.
3. Move the package to non-free.
General discussions are kindly requested to take place on debian-legal
or debian-devel in the thread with Subject: "Non-free IETF RFC/I-Ds in
source packages".
Thanks,
Simon
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Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Simon Josefsson wrote:
>> This source package contains the following files from the
>> IETF under non-free license terms:
>>
>> heimdal-1.2/lib/wind/rfc3454.txt
>> heimdal-1.2/lib/wind/rfc3492.txt
>>
> Wrong.
>
> heimdal-1.2/lib/wind/rfc3454.txt doesn't contain any text from the
> RFC, only the tables. I was told this was OK.
>
> heimdal-1.2/lib/wind/rfc3492.txt contains the following text. I was told it
> is OK as a result.
>
> B. Disclaimer and license
>
> Regarding this entire document or any portion of it (including the
> pseudocode and C code), the author makes no guarantees and is not
> responsible for any damage resulting from its use. The author grants
> irrevocable permission to anyone to use, modify, and distribute it in
> any way that does not diminish the rights of anyone else to use,
> modify, and distribute it, provided that redistributed derivative
> works do not contain misleading author or version information.
> Derivative works need not be licensed under similar terms.
>
> All of this was discussed recently on Debian-devel and with the
> ftp-masters who subsequently accepted the package.
>
> It is also mentioned in debian/copyright.
>
> See the thread from
> <http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/06/msg00232.html>.
Thanks. If this has already been discussed and reviewed and OK by
ftp-masters then it is fine. Sorry for the noise and for raising a rc
bug about it. I'll see if I can manage to close the bug with this
message.
/Simon
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