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Bug#181493: SUN RPC code is DFSG-free



On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 02:48:29PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> Ah, so in general, when people find a flagrant DFSG violation in main,
> the best thing they can do is just leave it alone.  Otherwise, it's a
> "change", and past inclusion is always sufficient present for future
> retention.

No, the best thing to do is to *contact the upstream copyright holder*.
That's true whether it's flagrant or not, and given neither myself nor
the glibc maintainers are convinced, it's hardly clear that it is.

Cheers,
aj

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