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Hello,

thanks, I will remove this file today in a DFSG upload.

@Robert:
Will you remove it with your next release, too?

Simon Josefsson schrieb:
> Severity: serious
> Package: torsocks
> Version: 1.0~delta-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:
> 
>   torsocks-1.0-delta/doc/SOCKS5-rfc1928.txt
> 
> 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
> 
> 


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Mit freundlichem Gruß / With kind regards,
 Patrick Matthäi
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