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

[Mike Christie]

On 10/30/2011 01:19 PM, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
> Hello Mike,
> 
> What is your take? Can this be re-licensed?
> 

I am not sure. I do not think so. However, those are just the docs that
the original maintianer of the package added to make it easier to look
up info. They are available on the internet. Let's just drop them from
the package/src tarball, and just give people a link to them on the
internet. Will that work for you guys?




> 
> 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
> 
> 
> 
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