Re: RC bug for src:libfcgi

On 4/5/25 00:41, Soren Stoutner wrote:
> 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.

Thank you, #466117 severity has been reconsidered and decreased from 
serious to minor.

Best regards,
Xavier