On 12 February 2018 at 10:28, Colin Watson <cjwat...@debian.org> wrote: > The developer's reference says [1]: > > A repackaged .orig.tar.{gz,bz2,xz} [...] *should not* contain any file > that does not come from the upstream author(s), or whose contents has > been changed by you. > > My recent attempt to upload grub2 2.02-3 was rejected due to > https://bugs.debian.org/745409, which I admit I've been putting off > dealing with for a while; but the relevant tag > (license-problem-non-free-RFC) was added to the ftpmaster auto-reject
I believe this tag to be a false positive in this case. Whilst RFC text themselves are not-free, the code components of an RFC are free under a 3-clause BSD like license. I only see code components in the grub2 package and no RFC text. http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info/IETF-TLP-5.htm Section 4 License to Code Components -- Regards, Dimitri.