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Bug#745763: lintian: False positive with RFCs



reopen 745763
thanks

On Saturday 26 April 2014 12:41:57 Bastien ROUCARIES wrote:
[snip]
> No the license is false, lintian is right.
> 
> "The implementation of the US Secure Hash Algorithm 1 (SHA1) in this
> example is derived from the original description" under license.
> Legally you are bind to this license even for code, but fortunatly the
> "The Internet Society" allow you according to
> http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info/IETF-TLP-4.htm to implement the
> code under bsd licence (#4).
> 
> Thus lintian is right to warm you, the license if false in this case.

Lintian is right to warn me that an html file is describing the license of 
certain code and not the code itself????

Sorry, I think Lintian should warn about the code, not about a file that is 
only listing licenses.

I'm reopening the bug.

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