From: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
To: Nicholas D Steeves <nsteeves@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Remove misleading BCP 78 boilerplate
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 16:40:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170918144005.GC29043@twin.jikos.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170917235227.6452-3-nsteeves@gmail.com>
On Sun, Sep 17, 2017 at 07:52:27PM -0400, Nicholas D Steeves wrote:
> BCP 78 applies to RFC 6234, but sha224-256.c is Simplified BSD.
>
> This causes the following lintian error when building on Debian and
> Debian derivatives:
>
> E: btrfs-progs source: license-problem-non-free-RFC-BCP78
> tests/sha224-256.c
>
> Please consult the following email from debian-legal@lists.debian.org
> for more information:
>
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2017/08/msg00004.html
Thanks, this looks like I've copied too much from the RFC and was not
aware of the BCP license issues. I believe the copyright notice(s) past
the line mentioning the filename(s) should be enough to satisfy the
licensing requirements and also the debian license checker.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-18 14:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-17 23:52 [PATCH 0/2] btrfs-progs: tests/sha* copyright clarity and compliance fixes Nicholas D Steeves
2017-09-17 23:52 ` [PATCH 1/2] Add required IETF Trust copyright Nicholas D Steeves
2017-09-17 23:52 ` [PATCH 2/2] Remove misleading BCP 78 boilerplate Nicholas D Steeves
2017-09-18 14:40 ` David Sterba [this message]
2017-09-28 14:12 ` Nicholas D Steeves
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