Bug#745453: [libgcrypt20] Non free RFC

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2014-04-22 bastien ROUCARIES <roucaries.bastien at gmail.com> wrote:
> Package: libgcrypt20
> Version: 1.6.1-2
> Severity: serious
> User: debian-release at lists.debian.org
> Usertags: nonfree-doc rfc
> control: block 745409 by -1
> control: clone -1 -2
> control: reassign -2 libgcrypt11
> control: found -2 1.5.3-4 

> Hi!

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

> cipher/crc.c

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

>  * http://wiki.debian.org/NonFreeIETFDocuments
>  * http://bugs.debian.org/199810
[...]

Hello,

I have taken another look at this and still have no idea whether this
bug is even valid.

Both rfc-editor.org and www.ietf.org still distribute RFC 1952
with the following copyright statement and license:
------------------------------------------
   Copyright (c) 1996 L. Peter Deutsch

   Permission is granted to copy and distribute this document for any
   purpose and without charge, including translations into other
   languages and incorporation into compilations, provided that the
   copyright notice and this notice are preserved, and that any
   substantive changes or deletions from the original are clearly
   marked.

   A pointer to the latest version of this and related documentation in
   HTML format can be found at the URL
   <ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/png/documents/zlib/zdoc-index.html>.
------------------------------------------

The gcrypt license header says:
  The copyright on RFCs, and consequently the function below, are
  supposedly also retroactively claimed by the Internet Society
  (according to rfc-editor at rfc-editor.org), with the following
  copyright notice: [...]

I assume this refers to the mail quoted in
https://wiki.debian.org/NonFreeIETFDocuments regarding RFC 1510. -
However the situation with 1510 differs signigicantly from RFC 1952.
The former is distributet without copyrighth statement and
license-headers, while the other one has both.

cu Andreas
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