Re: Bug#634015: Proposition to team-maintain m2crypto.

[Philipp Kern <trash@philkern.de>]

On 2011-08-10, Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> wrote:
>   ############################################################################
>   # Matt Rodriguez, LBNL
>   #Copyright (c) 2003, The Regents of the University of California,
>   #through Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
>   #(subject to receipt of any required approvals from the U.S. Dept. of Energy).
>   #All rights reserved.
>   ############################################################################
>
> Of course, this file is not used at build time and is not distributed in our
> binary packages, but if I understand well our procedures, I can not knowingly
> upload a package that contains this file.
>
> Hence the question to the other developers: is it necessary to correct m2crypto
> source package in Stable ?  Not that I am interested to do it – you know my
> position on these files is that they should be documented but ignored otherwise
> (see http://lists.debian.org/20100124144741.GD13468@kunpuu.plessy.org ).  So
> if the answer is yes, can somebody volunteer to do the work ?

All I can say is "wtf".  You knowingly accept that Debian distributes
undistributable files?  It's not that it's a non-free license that still allows
distribution, it's "All Rights Reserved".

Kind regards
Philipp Kern