Bug#463936: Source package contains non-free IETF RFC/I-D
tags 463936 +pending
thanks
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 10:47:03AM +0100, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Severity: serious
> Package: kdepimlibs
> Version: 4:4.0.0-4
> User: debian-release@lists.debian.org
> Usertags: nonfree-doc rfc
>
> Hi!
>
> This source package contains the following files from the
> IETF under non-free license terms:
>
> kdepimlibs-4.0.0/kioslave/sieve/draft-murchison-sieve-subaddress-05.txt
> kdepimlibs-4.0.0/kioslave/sieve/draft-murchison-sieve-regex-06.txt
> kdepimlibs-4.0.0/kioslave/sieve/draft-martin-managesieve-04.txt
> kdepimlibs-4.0.0/kioslave/sieve/draft-showalter-sieve-vacation-04.txt
> kdepimlibs-4.0.0/kioslave/sieve/draft-martin-sieve-notify-01.txt
> kdepimlibs-4.0.0/kioslave/sieve/draft-degener-sieve-body-00.txt
>
> and in the same directory also:
>
> draft-daboo-sieve-include.txt
> draft-daboo-sieve-spamtest.txt
> draft-degener-sieve-copy.txt
> draft-degener-sieve-editheader.txt
> draft-degener-sieve-multiscript.txt
> draft-homme-sieve-variables.txt
> draft-melnikov-sieve-imapflags.txt
>
> The license on RFC/I-Ds is not DFSG-free, see:
> * http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=199810
> * http://release.debian.org/removing-non-free-documentation
> * http://wiki.debian.org/NonFreeIETFDocuments
>
> The etch release policy says binary and source packages must each be free:
> * http://release.debian.org/etch_rc_policy.txt
>
> The severity is serious, because this violates the Debian policy:
> * http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#s-dfsg
>
> There are (at least) three ways to fix this problem. In order of
> preference:
>
> 1. Ask the author of the RFC to re-license the RFC under a free
> license. A template for this e-mail request can be found at
> http://wiki.debian.org/NonFreeIETFDocuments
>
> 2. Remove the non-free material from the source, e.g., by re-packaging
> the upstream archive and adding 'dfsg' to the Debian package
> version name.
>
> 3. Move the package to non-free.
>
> General discussions are kindly requested to take place on debian-legal
> or debian-devel in the thread with Subject: "Non-free IETF RFC/I-Ds in
> source packages".
I have added a prune-nonfree script to kdepimlibs so we'll remember pruning
those files and re-packing the tarball with newer upstream releases.
I won't upload a repackaged tarball so this bug won't fixed until beginning of
april when KDE 4.0.3 will be released.
Ana
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