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
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