Hello Mike, What is your take? Can this be re-licensed?
Ritesh -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Bug#645752: Source package contains non-free IETF RFC/I-D Resent-Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 11:21:26 +0000 Resent-From: Simon Josefsson <si...@josefsson.org> Resent-To: debian-bugs-d...@lists.debian.org Resent-CC: Debian iSCSI Maintainers <pkg-iscsi-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org> Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 13:20:23 +0200 From: Simon Josefsson <si...@josefsson.org> Reply-To: Simon Josefsson <si...@josefsson.org>, 645...@bugs.debian.org To: sub...@bugs.debian.org Severity: serious Package: open-iscsi Version: 2.0.872-2 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: open-iscsi-2.0.872/utils/open-isns/doc/rfc2608.txt open-iscsi-2.0.872/utils/open-isns/doc/rfc3279.txt open-iscsi-2.0.872/utils/open-isns/doc/rfc3720.txt open-iscsi-2.0.872/utils/open-isns/doc/rfc3722.txt open-iscsi-2.0.872/utils/open-isns/doc/rfc4018.txt open-iscsi-2.0.872/utils/open-isns/doc/rfc4171.txt The license on RFC/I-Ds is not DFSG-free, see: * http://wiki.debian.org/NonFreeIETFDocuments * http://release.debian.org/removing-non-free-documentation * http://bugs.debian.org/199810 According to the squeeze/wheezy release policy, source packages must be DFSG-free, see: * http://release.debian.org/squeeze/rc_policy.txt * http://release.debian.org/wheezy/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 -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT - http://www.researchut.com "Necessity is the mother of invention."
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