Severity: serious
Package: openldap2
Version: 2.1.30.dfsg-13.5
User: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Usertags: nonfree-doc rfc

Hi!

This report is similar to 393403, but that bug was about other files.
Re-opening that bug for the following files seemed inappropriate.  Hence
I filed a new bug.

This source package contains the following files from the
IETF under non-free license terms:

+  openldap-2.1.30/doc/drafts/draft-legg-ldapext-component-matching-xx.txt
+  openldap-2.1.30/doc/drafts/draft-zeilenga-ldap-rfc2596-xx.txt
+  openldap-2.1.30/doc/drafts/draft-leach-uuids-guids-xx.txt
+  openldap-2.1.30/doc/drafts/draft-legg-ldap-admin-xx.txt
+  openldap-2.1.30/doc/drafts/draft-zeilenga-ldap-user-schema-xx.txt
+  openldap-2.1.30/doc/drafts/draft-lachman-laser-ldap-mail-routing-xx.txt
+  openldap-2.1.30/doc/drafts/draft-ietf-ldapext-matchedval-xx.txt
+  openldap-2.1.30/doc/drafts/draft-zeilenga-ldap-adlist-xx.txt
+  openldap-2.1.30/doc/drafts/draft-ietf-ldapext-locate-xx.txt
+  openldap-2.1.30/doc/drafts/draft-legg-ldap-gser-abnf-xx.txt
+  openldap-2.1.30/doc/drafts/draft-legg-ldap-acm-admin-xx.txt
+  openldap-2.1.30/doc/drafts/draft-legg-ldap-gser-xx.txt
+  openldap-2.1.30/doc/drafts/draft-zeilenga-ldap-features-xx.txt
+  openldap-2.1.30/doc/drafts/draft-zeilenga-ldap-authzid-xx.txt
+  openldap-2.1.30/doc/drafts/draft-zeilenga-ldap-opattrs-xx.txt
+  openldap-2.1.30/doc/drafts/draft-ietf-ldapext-ldap-c-api-xx.txt
+  openldap-2.1.30/doc/drafts/draft-zeilenga-ldap-t-f-xx.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

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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