Bug#745453: [libgcrypt20] Non free RFC

Simon Josefsson simon at josefsson.org
Tue Apr 22 13:08:15 UTC 2014


You wrote:

> 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.

Feel free to forward it upstream to Werner.  I think COPYING reflect
the correct licensing status of the package though, so I'm not sure
what should be added there?

/Simon



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