[Pkg-net-snmp-devel] Bug#498475: Bug#498475: Lenny-Ignore tag request for SNMP related bugs

[Jochen Friedrich]

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Hi Vincent,

> I have just opened two bugs against libsmi-common and libsnmp-base:
>  http://bugs.debian.org/498476
>  http://bugs.debian.org/498475
> 
> Those packages  ship MIB files that  are non-free (same  license as IETF
> RFC).  However, there is  no quick  fix: removing  those files  make the
> packages unusable,  moving to non-free  make a lot of  important package
> (snmpd) move to contrib, etc.
> 
> I think we should fix this issue after Lenny. Therefore, I would like to
> tag those bugs with lenny-ignore.

IMHO things are even worse.

Looking at the MIB License at http://www.ietf.org/copyrights/ianamib.html,
it appears to me that any modification of the MIBs is prohibited, including
fixing syntactic errors. On the other hand, net-snmp-5.4.1/mibs/Makefile.mib
which can be used to refresh the included MIB file applies a patch to the
dowloaded MIBs which fixes those errors. Wouldn't this even make distributing
libsnmp-base in non-free problematic?

Thanks,
Jochen
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