Bug#520977: kdelibs: no distribution license for several files

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 07:14:12AM +0100, Sune Vuorela wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 March 2009 04:19:35 Mike O'Connor wrote:
> > Package: kdelibs
> > Version: 3.5.10.dfsg.1-2
> > Severity: serious
> > Justification: dfsg #1
> >
> >
> > While working on #520485, I noticed that we are distributing several files
> > for while we don't seem to have a distribution license.
> >
> > kio/kssl/kssl/{cert_bundle,certbundle_Makefile} say:
> > Copyright (c) 1998 Ralf S. Engelschall, All Rights Reserved.
> >
> > If all rights are reserved and there is no other indication of a license to
> > distribute, we should not be distributing these files.
> >
> > cert_extract.c also looks suspicious, and someone needs to verify its
> > origin.
> 
> I see no reason that cert_exrtact.c looks suspicious ?
> 
> The two small scripts, especially the makefile, looks kind of trivial.
> 
> Removing them is not a option, unless you want to strip kde of its ssl 
> support.
> 
> The author of that file have from 1995 been very active across several open 
> source projects, so getting license clarifications should be possible, if he 
> even remembers what he did 11 years ago.
> http://rpm5.org/community/rpm-devel/3496.html

I've written Ralf a mail asking for clarification and eventual relicensing.

Cheers,
        Moritz