Bug#361846: [Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#361846: non-free license for core.schema

Russ Allbery rra at debian.org
Tue Oct 3 20:24:14 UTC 2006


Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah at stanford.edu> writes:
> Steve Langasek <vorlon at debian.org> wrote:

>> If this file is a non-copyrightable interface definition, the bug here
>> is the presence of a copyright notice and license statement where there
>> should be none.

> ITS#4693 in the OpenLDAP ITS system.

Q, if you need help supporting this upstream, note to them that a literal
reading of the current license would say that you're not allowed to modify
the schema on your local system unless you write a completely new schema
from scratch without referring to that one.  Which is kind of silly.

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>




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