Bastian Germann dixit:
dietlibc includes the sunrpc code from old glibc versions, which is >demonstrated to be non-free in #181493.
The text in dietlibc reads thusly though:
Users
* may copy or modify Sun RPC without charge, but are not authorized
* to license or distribute it to anyone else except as part of a product or
* program developed by the user.
One could argue that dietlibc is a product developed by Fefe,
who then licences and distributes it (under GPL) to others,
which (as long as that notice is included) is covered. I see
dancer already said so, and…
| Sun has repeatedly clarified elsewhere that the intent of this is
| essentially "MIT/X11, except you may not distribute this product
| alone."
… don’t we have other things like that in the archive, with
the justification that it’s trivial to add something to it.
And I don’t follow the others in that thread who think that
the licence of the product developed by the (first) user cannot
be transitive. Note both IANAL+TINLA, but so are the folks on
d-legal. The clarification by Sun also says so.
Not that I’m adverse to replacing things with better-licenced
things, but I don’t think it warrants rc-bugginess (the lack
of the licence in d/copyright does but is a different topic).
But…
I have already informed upstream about it.
… this is where this is best dealt with. Thanks.
bye,
//mirabilos
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