Hi Bastian, Sorry for the slow reply. Life has throwna a lot of things at me this month.
On Thu, Jun 06, 2024 at 10:17:33PM +0200, Bastian Germann wrote: > > OpenAFS includes the Sun RPC code under the original, non-free license. > That code was relicensed by Oracle under a BSD license (see > https://spot.livejournal.com/315383.html). > > I have filed an upstream bug (see forwarded URL), which has a response > linking a previous draft submission to make use of that relicensing, which > is blocked by people agreeing to their code (which has substantial changes > to the relicense glibc or FreeBSD copies) being relicensed. > > Maybe replacing it without those additional changes is possible in Debian. I do not see how it would be possible to replace this code in Debian before upstream can do so; this code is a core part of the functionality of the software and the files cannot be relicensed without the permission of all copyright holders. I am also a bit confused at why you chose to file this as severity: serious -- could you please clarify what part of policy is being violated or how it makes the package unsuitable for release? Thanks, Ben
