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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]