[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#547280: Bug #547280: heimdal, rfc 3454, rfc 3492

[Willi Mann]

Hi Jelmer!

> On Mon, 2009-12-28 at 15:09 +0100, Willi Mann wrote:
>> Samba 4 currently contains the full rfc3454.txt, while the debian
>> heimdal package only contains the tables. Could samba upstream also
>> switch to the tables only rfc3454.txt, in order to resolve this RC bug?

> Can you explain why just including the tables is a valid workaround? As
> far as I can tell from the copyright notice in the RFC, derivative works
> still need to keep the license and include the copyright notice.

I'm not a lawyer, I only read that in the bug report. I've just googled
for some relevant mails and found

http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/06/msg00233.html

The follow-up by Simon Josefsson is also interesting.

WM