Bug#520977: kdelibs: no distribution license for several files
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
/Sune
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