Bug#745453: [libgcrypt20] Non free RFC

Bastien ROUCARIES roucaries.bastien at gmail.com
Tue Apr 22 12:59:30 UTC 2014


On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 1:30 PM, Simon Josefsson <simon at josefsson.org> wrote:
> Two comments:
>
> 1) Looking at crc.c, I don't think the code in question is big enough to
>    be copyrightable.  The FSF usually uses a 10-line limit, and my
>    impression is that they are intentionally conservative here.  The
>    code is a couple of lines only.
>
> 2) Code from some RFCs is available under the BSD license or for
>    smaller snippets, under fair use, via the IETF Trust.  See
>    http://trustee.ietf.org/faq.html

Ok this could be thus documented under your COPYING File and reflected
back in debian/copyright.

Bastien

> /Simon



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