[theora-dev] Re: [Speex-dev] RTP I-D copyrights (Fwd: Release-critical Bugreport for December 22, 2006)

[Ralph Giles]

Luca,

Are you ok with this change. We should do it if at all possible.

 -r

On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 10:54:33AM +0900, Conrad Parker wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I noticed a bug logged against libtheora in Debian:
> 
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=393391
> 
> relating to the copyright statement of the included Internet Draft for
> RTP, and it appears the same issue could arise with the vorbis and
> speex RTP drafts.
> 
> Details about the issue in general are at:
> 
> http://wiki.debian.org/NonFreeIETFDocuments
> 
> That page contains a section titled "Template for RFC authors to
> release additional rights". To follow that guideline we should add a
> section like the following to Internet Drafts:
> 
> x. Copying conditions
> 
>        The author(s) agree to grant third parties the irrevocable
>        right to copy, use and distribute the work, with
>        or without modification, in any medium, without royalty,
>        provided that, unless separate permission is granted,
>        redistributed modified works do not contain misleading
>        author, version, name of work, or endorsement information.
> 
> For Debian, this issue is in principle release-critical but marked
> ignore for the Etch release. If possible, let's modify the copyright
> notices (upstream) rather than forcing the Debian maintainers to
> remove the I-Ds from the source packages in future.
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Conrad.
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: BugScan reporter <bugscan at debian.org>
> Date: 22-Dec-2006 23:30
> Subject: Release-critical Bugreport for December 22, 2006
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> 
> 
> Package: libtheora (debian/main)
> Maintainer: Debian Xiph.org Maintainers 
> <pkg-xiph-maint at lists.alioth.debian.org>
>  393391 [       I] Source package contains non-free IETF RFC/I-D's
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