Bug#520977: kdelibs: no distribution license for several files
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 07:38:48PM -0400, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> 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.
He replied; these files are from mod_ssl, which uses a free, BSD-similar
license. I've amemded the debian/copyright file in SVN.
Cheers,
Moritz
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