Author homepage: http://www.math.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~m-mat/MT/emt.html
Current license of the code http://www.math.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~m-mat/MT/MT2002/elicense.html So looks like documentation bug. Ondrej. 2008/9/11 Jan Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Package: php5 > Version: 5.2.0-8 > Severity: serious > > Please have a look into line 144-148 of ext/standard/rand.c: > > " When you use this, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with an appropriate reference to your work. > > It would be nice to CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > when you write." > > This is not conform to the DFSG, even in 5.2.6-3. Please keep me updated, > since the same code is also used in the latest php-suhosin upstream source and > is preventing fixing some serious bugs in lenny. > > Looking at http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/4301.html, there > is a different license: > > /* Copyright (C) 1997, 1999 Makoto Matsumoto and Takuji Nishimura. */ > /* Any feedback is very welcome. For any question, comments, */ > /* see http://www.math.keio.ac.jp/matumoto/emt.html or email */ > /* [EMAIL PROTECTED] */ > Thanks and with kind regards, Jan. > -- > Never write mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, you have been warned! > -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- > Version: 3.1 > GIT d-- s+: a- C+++ UL++++ P+ L+++ E- W+++ N+++ o++ K++ w--- O M V- PS PE > Y++ PGP++ t-- 5 X R tv- b+ DI- D++ G++ e++ h-- r+++ y+++ > ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ > > _______________________________________________ > pkg-php-maint mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-php-maint > -- Ondřej Surý <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>