Severity: serious Package: libvorbis Version: 1.2.3-2 User: debian-rele...@lists.debian.org Usertags: nonfree-doc rfc
Hi! This source package contains the following files from the IETF under non-free license terms: + libvorbis-1.2.3/doc/rfc5215.txt Looking into the background here, it may be that the intention of the author was to release the document under a free license since source code for the document is included and the document author may be involved with the project. If that is true (needs to be confirmed) the solution is to fix the debian/copyright file to mention the file and its copyright status -- the file contains other copyright notices than the ones mentioned in debian/copyright now. The license on RFC/I-Ds is not DFSG-free, see: * http://bugs.debian.org/199810 * http://release.debian.org/removing-non-free-documentation * http://wiki.debian.org/NonFreeIETFDocuments The lenny/squeeze release policy says binary and source packages must each be free: * http://release.debian.org/lenny/rc_policy.txt * http://release.debian.org/squeeze/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 debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
