Ron <r...@debian.org> writes: > Hi Simon, > > Thanks for picking up on my oops here so quickly. I've spoken with > Jean-Marc about this, and he's both aware of the issues and willing > to accommodate us with a suitable licence for main. It's kind of a > crazy week for him right now but we should have a formal statement > on that before too long, and I'll update the package copyright when > we do.
That's awesome! Thanks. /Simon > Thanks, > Ron > > > On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 01:39:35PM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: >> Severity: serious >> Package: celt >> Version: 0.6.1-1 >> 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: >> >> + celt-0.6.1.orig/doc/ietf/draft-valin-celt-rtp-profile-01.txt >> >> When looking into this, I noticed XML source was included in the package >> so there is potential that the authors are willing to license the work >> under a DFSG-free license as well as the IETF license. See the links >> below for more information on how to make that happen. >> >> 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/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-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
