Dimitri John Ledkov <x...@debian.org> wrote: > On 12 February 2018 at 10:28, Colin Watson <cjwat...@debian.org> wrote: [...] >> My recent attempt to upload grub2 2.02-3 was rejected due to >> https://bugs.debian.org/745409, which I admit I've been putting off >> dealing with for a while; but the relevant tag >> (license-problem-non-free-RFC) was added to the ftpmaster auto-reject
> I believe this tag to be a false positive in this case. > Whilst RFC text themselves are not-free, the code components of an RFC > are free under a 3-clause BSD like license. > I only see code components in the grub2 package and no RFC text. > http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info/IETF-TLP-5.htm Section 4 License > to Code Components Hello, I do not think so. The respective code is from rfc1952 (May 1996). The code component exception applies from Nov 2008 onwards. See https://trustee.ietf.org/copyright-faq.html 5.1: Afaiui parts from older rfc are unusable. cu Andreas PS: I would love to be wrong on this. -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure'