Bug#574544: [afflib] contains files released under a non-free license

[Michael Prokop]

tags 574544 pending
thanks

* Christophe Monniez <christophe.monniez at fccu.be> [Sat Mar 20, 2010 at 11:11:56AM +0100]:

> Here is the answer of the upstream author about this problem:
> """
> Those files are public domain, which means that they are distributed
> without a license. This is the least restrictive way of distributing
> content on the planet. You can do anything you want with that. 

> You are correct, however. The last sentence is not in the spirit of the
> PD. This verbiage is from NIST and it is clearly not legal. We will
> remove it from the next release.
> """

> So, I will close this bug when packaging the next release (I will skip
> the current 3.5.8).

Great, thanks for taking care, Christophe.

> Untill then, I'm not sure of what to do and what is the Debian way to
> handle this problem.

I'm marking this bug as pending to show that we're aware of this
issue and it will be fixed with next upload.

regards,
-mika-
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