Severity: serious Package: erlang Version: 1:13.b-dfsg-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: + otp_src_R13B/lib/inets/doc/archive/rfc959.txt + otp_src_R13B/lib/inets/doc/archive/rfc1123.txt + otp_src_R13B/lib/inets/doc/archive/rfc2068.txt + otp_src_R13B/lib/inets/doc/archive/rfc2616.txt + otp_src_R13B/lib/inets/doc/archive/rfc2616.pdf + otp_src_R13B/lib/inets/doc/archive/rfc2145.txt + otp_src_R13B/lib/inets/doc/archive/rfc2428.txt + otp_src_R13B/lib/inets/doc/archive/rfc2577.txt Further, the file + otp_src_R13B/lib/inets/doc/archive/rfc1945.html contains a HTML version of RFC 1945 (the HTML spec) but the top of that file says: The contents of this file are subject to the Erlang Public License, Version 1.1, (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You should have received a copy of the Erlang Public License along with this software. If not, it can be retrieved via the world wide web at http://www.erlang.org/. Software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing rights and limitations under the License. The Initial Developer of the Original Code is Ericsson Utvecklings AB. Portions created by Ericsson are Copyright 1999, Ericsson Utvecklings AB. All Rights Reserved. I suspect this is an incorrect copyright claim. 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