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

  heimdal-1.2/lib/wind/rfc3454.txt
  heimdal-1.2/lib/wind/rfc3492.txt
Wrong.

heimdal-1.2/lib/wind/rfc3454.txt doesn't contain any text from the RFC, only the tables. I was told this was OK.

heimdal-1.2/lib/wind/rfc3492.txt contains the following text. I was told it is 
OK as a result.

B. Disclaimer and license

  Regarding this entire document or any portion of it (including the
  pseudocode and C code), the author makes no guarantees and is not
  responsible for any damage resulting from its use.  The author grants
  irrevocable permission to anyone to use, modify, and distribute it in
  any way that does not diminish the rights of anyone else to use,
  modify, and distribute it, provided that redistributed derivative
  works do not contain misleading author or version information.
  Derivative works need not be licensed under similar terms.

All of this was discussed recently on Debian-devel and with the ftp-masters who subsequently accepted the package.

It is also mentioned in debian/copyright.

See the thread from <http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/06/msg00232.html>.

Brian May



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