Bug#361846: [Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#361846: non-free license for core.schema

[Quanah Gibson-Mount]

--On Monday, October 02, 2006 9:14 PM -0700 Steve Langasek 
<vorlon at debian.org> wrote:

> severity 361846 important
> retitle 361846 invalid assertion of copyright on contents of core.schema
> thanks
>
>> Plus, this is an interface specification if I've ever seen one, and
>> interface specifications are not copyrightable under US law.
>
> I agree, but was hesitant to assert this without some corroboration.
>
> If this file is a non-copyrightable interface definition, the bug here is
> the presence of a copyright notice and license statement where there
> should be none.

ITS#4693 in the OpenLDAP ITS system.

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
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ITS/Shared Application Services
Stanford University
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