Re: RC bug for src:libfcgi

Soren Stoutner <[email protected]> Fri, 04 Apr 2025 15:41:57 -0700

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.legal
Organization	Debian
Message-ID	<5907394.STdkYbjpsp@soren-desktop>

On Wednesday, April 2, 2025 6:45:57 PM Mountain Standard Time Don 
Armstrong wrote:
> severity 466117 minor
> tag 466117 wontfix
> retitle 466117 copyright header in /usr/include/fcgios.h doesn't
> include actual license terms summary 466117 0
> thanks
> 
> There's an express written license in LICENSE.TERMS which gives
> written permission by the copyright holder of /usr/include/fcgios.h
> to all of the files distributed. My non-lawyer reading agrees that
> this doesn't appear to conflict with those terms, because we've
> been given written permission. Maybe upstream can fix it, but I
> don't see this as blocking distribution by Debian.

I have been meaning to take the time to review the actual files in 
question, but given that I haven’t been able to do so and Don has, I 
would just like to state that I agree with his assessment.  Assuming 
he is correct about LICENSE.TERMS applying to these files, and I have 
no reason to believe it doesn’t unless somewhere they are listed as 
excluded, then this license makes our distribution of these files 
DFSG-free.  It doesn’t really matter that their header says they would 
not be DFSG-free if LICENSE.TERMS didn’t exist.

-- 
Soren Stoutner
[email protected]

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