clone 894158 -1
retitle -1 libogg contains RFC released under a non-free license
severity -1 serious
thanks

On 2018-03-27 11:09, Simon McVittie wrote:
> If the RFCs are false-positives and they are actually Free Software,
> please add Lintian overrides to document this for future contributors. If
> they're non-free, then that's considered a release-critical bug (I can't
> say I'm entirely convinced that applying the DFSG equally to documentation
> is proportionate, but there have been GRs that say it's project consensus
> that we do).

On 2020-02-29 15:22, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> control: tags 894158 - pending
> control: tags 894207 - pending
> 
> On 2020-02-05 21:46, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > Control: tags 894158 + patch
> > Control: tags 894158 + pending
> > Control: tags 894207 + pending
> > 
> > Dear maintainer,
> > 
> > I've prepared an NMU for libogg (versioned as 1.3.4-0.1) and uploaded
> > it to DELAYED/15. Please feel free to tell me if I should cancel it.
> > 
> 
> The package has been rejected:
> 
> | libogg source: lintian output: 'license-problem-non-free-RFC 
> doc/rfc3533.txt', automatically rejected package.
> | libogg source: If you have a good reason, you may override this lintian
> 
> Removing the pending tags accordingly.

Looking at the licenses, both RFC included in the tarball are definitely
non-free:

* doc/rfc3533.txt:

| Full Copyright Statement
| 
|    Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2003).  All Rights Reserved.
| 
|    This document and translations of it may be copied and furnished to
|    others, and derivative works that comment on or otherwise explain it
|    or assist in its implementation may be prepared, copied, published
|    and distributed, in whole or in part, without restriction of any
|    kind, provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph are
|    included on all such copies and derivative works.  However, this
|    document itself may not be modified in any way, such as by removing
|    the copyright notice or references to the Internet Society or other
|    Internet organizations, except as needed for the purpose of
|    developing Internet standards in which case the procedures for
|    copyrights defined in the Internet Standards process must be
|    followed, or as required to translate it into languages other than
|    English.
| 
|    The limited permissions granted above are perpetual and will not be
|    revoked by the Internet Society or its successors or assigns.
| 
|    This document and the information contained herein is provided on an
|    "AS IS" basis and THE INTERNET SOCIETY AND THE INTERNET ENGINEERING
|    TASK FORCE DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING
|    BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTY THAT THE USE OF THE INFORMATION
|    HEREIN WILL NOT INFRINGE ANY RIGHTS OR ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
|    MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
 
* doc/rfc5334.txt:
 
|    Copyright (C) The IETF Trust (2008).
| 
|    This document is subject to the rights, licenses and restrictions
|    contained in BCP 78, and except as set forth therein, the authors
|    retain all their rights.
| 
|    This document and the information contained herein are provided on an
|    "AS IS" basis and THE CONTRIBUTOR, THE ORGANIZATION HE/SHE REPRESENTS
|    OR IS SPONSORED BY (IF ANY), THE INTERNET SOCIETY, THE IETF TRUST AND
|    THE INTERNET ENGINEERING TASK FORCE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS
|    OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTY THAT THE USE OF
|    THE INFORMATION HEREIN WILL NOT INFRINGE ANY RIGHTS OR ANY IMPLIED
|    WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

I am therefore cloning that bug, and I am preparing an NMU based on
latest Adrian's upload.

Regards,
Aurelien

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