Severity: serious Package: courier Version: 0.59.0-1 User: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Usertags: nonfree-doc rfc
Hi! This source package contains the following files that claim to be released under the non-free IETF license in RFC 2026: courier-0.59.0.orig/courier/doc/draft-varshavchik-exdata-smtpext.txt courier-0.59.0.orig/courier/doc/draft-varshavchik-verp-smtpext.txt courier-0.59.0.orig/courier/doc/draft-varshavchik-security-smtpext.txt The top of these drafts says: This document is an Internet-Draft and is in full conformance with all provisions of Section 10 of RFC2026. Section 10 contains the (old) IETF license. Arguable, since these documents were written by the same author as the software, the intention may have been to release the documents under the same license as courier itself (or some other free license). But there is nothing in debian/copyright to clarify the situation, leaving this ambiguous. Hopefully the simplest solution will be to confirm with the authors which license they actually intend: RFC 2026 or courier license. 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 lenny release policy says binary and source packages must each be free: * http://release.debian.org/lenny/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]
