[Pkg-iscsi-maintainers] Bug#645752: Fwd: Bug#645752: Source package contains non-free IETF RFC/I-D

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

Hello Mike,

What is your take? Can this be re-licensed?


Ritesh

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Bug#645752: Source package contains non-free IETF RFC/I-D
Resent-Date: 	Tue, 18 Oct 2011 11:21:26 +0000
Resent-From: 	Simon Josefsson <simon at josefsson.org>
Resent-To: 	debian-bugs-dist at lists.debian.org
Resent-CC: 	Debian iSCSI Maintainers
<pkg-iscsi-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org>
Date: 	Tue, 18 Oct 2011 13:20:23 +0200
From: 	Simon Josefsson <simon at josefsson.org>
Reply-To: 	Simon Josefsson <simon at josefsson.org>, 645752 at bugs.debian.org
To: 	submit at bugs.debian.org



Severity: serious
Package: open-iscsi
Version: 2.0.872-2
User: debian-release at lists.debian.org
Usertags: nonfree-doc rfc

Hi!

This source package contains the following files from the
IETF under non-free license terms:

  open-iscsi-2.0.872/utils/open-isns/doc/rfc2608.txt
  open-iscsi-2.0.872/utils/open-isns/doc/rfc3279.txt
  open-iscsi-2.0.872/utils/open-isns/doc/rfc3720.txt
  open-iscsi-2.0.872/utils/open-isns/doc/rfc3722.txt
  open-iscsi-2.0.872/utils/open-isns/doc/rfc4018.txt
  open-iscsi-2.0.872/utils/open-isns/doc/rfc4171.txt

The license on RFC/I-Ds is not DFSG-free, see:

 * http://wiki.debian.org/NonFreeIETFDocuments
 * http://release.debian.org/removing-non-free-documentation
 * http://bugs.debian.org/199810

According to the squeeze/wheezy release policy, source packages must be
DFSG-free, see:

 * http://release.debian.org/squeeze/rc_policy.txt
 * http://release.debian.org/wheezy/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".

Thanks,
Simon





-- 
Ritesh Raj Sarraf
RESEARCHUT - http://www.researchut.com
"Necessity is the mother of invention."

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