Comment 16 for bug 6762

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Debian Bug Importer (debzilla) wrote :

Message-Id: <email address hidden>
Date: 05 Dec 2002 08:45:21 -0500
From: Jeff Bailey <email address hidden>
To: "Brian M. Carlson" <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#171659: glibc: contains non-free docs and perhaps non-free
 code

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On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 00:45, Brian M. Carlson wrote:
> Package: glibc
> Version: unavailable; reported 2002-12-04
> Severity: serious
> Justification: Policy 2.1.1, 2.1.2
>=20
> debian-legal has recently decided that the GNU Free Documentation
> License is non-free. Therefore, at least libc.info* must be removed from
> the package. Additionally, the copyright file contains the following:
>=20
> * The code to support Sun RPC is taken verbatim from Sun's
> RPCSRC-4.0 distribution, and is covered by this copyright:

I'm talking with upstream about this.

In future, please don't file multiple issues in one bug - The GFDL issue
is very different that the SunRPC license issue. (And even if there was
no big difference, one fix could not resolve both problems)

Tks,
Jeff Bailey

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When you get to the heart,
use a knife and fork.
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