On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 03:05:23PM +0200, Dmitry Borodaenko wrote: > Each time I scan Release-critical Bugreport, this issue stops my eye. > > This bus is open for 11 months already (since 03 Apr 2001), and doc-rfc > maintainer told the world that he is not going to do anything about the > issue (and that was 3.5 months ago on 11 Nov 2001). Thus, should this > bug be dropped, or should someone contact ISOC for changes in their > copyright notice? The package maintainer is apparently unable or unwilling to apply the Debian Free Software Guidelines to his package. From /usr/share/doc/doc-rfc/copyright: However, this document itself may not be modified in any way, such as by removing the copyright notice or references to the Internet Society or other Internet organizations, except as needed for the purpose of developing Internet standards in which case the procedures for copyrights defined in the Internet Standards process must be followed, or as required to translate it into languages other than English. This license only allows modification if: 1) you're translating it into a language other than English; OR 2) it's for the purpose of developing Internet standards AND you are following the procedures for copyrights defined in the Internet Standards process. This license fails both DFSG 3 and DFSG 6. The package maintainer contends that "the license is clearly DFSG-free". Well, I'm sorry, but you can't both fail the DFSG and be DFSG-free. The non-free RFC's should either be split into their own package, or the package dropped from the distribution. The bug should not, IMO, be downgraded. Packages with non-free licenses are never (knowingly) allowed in main. -- G. Branden Robinson | Q: How does a Unix guru have sex? Debian GNU/Linux | A: unzip;strip;touch;finger;mount; branden@debian.org | fsck;more;yes;fsck;fsck;fsck; http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | umount;sleep
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