[php-maint] Bug#498621: Bug#498621: PHP5 - ext/standard/rand.c is not dfsg conform

[Ondřej Surý]

Author homepage: http://www.math.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~m-mat/MT/emt.html

Current license of the code
http://www.math.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~m-mat/MT/MT2002/elicense.html

So looks like documentation bug.

Ondrej.

2008/9/11 Jan Wagner <waja at cyconet.org>:
> Package: php5
> Version: 5.2.0-8
> Severity: serious
>
> Please have a look into line 144-148 of ext/standard/rand.c:
>
> "        When you use this, send an email to: matumoto at math.keio.ac.jp
>    with an appropriate reference to your work.
>
>        It would be nice to CC: rjwagner at writeme.com and
> Cokus at math.washington.edu
>        when you write."
>
> This is not conform to the DFSG, even in 5.2.6-3. Please keep me updated,
> since the same code is also used in the latest php-suhosin upstream source and
> is preventing fixing some serious bugs in lenny.
>
> Looking at http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/4301.html, there
> is a different license:
>
> /* Copyright (C) 1997, 1999 Makoto Matsumoto and Takuji Nishimura. */
> /* Any feedback is very welcome. For any question, comments,       */
> /* see http://www.math.keio.ac.jp/matumoto/emt.html or email       */
> /* matumoto at math.keio.ac.jp                                        */
> Thanks and with kind regards, Jan.
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