Simon Josefsson wrote:
Package: liburi-perl
Version: 1.35-2
Severity: serious
Hi!
This bug has been filed on multiple packages, and 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".
It seems this source package contains the following files from the
IETF under non-free license terms:
liburi-perl-1.35.orig/rfc2396.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 etch release policy says binary and source packages must each be free:
* http://release.debian.org/etch_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
I would happily do that, but this RFC has a broad authorship:
Network Working Group T. Berners-Lee
Request for Comments: 2396 MIT/LCS
Updates: 1808, 1738 R. Fielding
Category: Standards Track U.C. Irvine
L. Masinter
Xerox Corporation
August 1998
Please advise.
Bye
Racke
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