Debian Bug report logs - #499471
PHP5 - ext/standard/rand.c is not dfsg conform

serious

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Package: php5
Version: 5.2.0-8
Severity: serious

Please have a look into line 144-148 of ext/standard/rand.c:

"        When you use this, send an email to: matumoto@math.keio.ac.jp
    with an appropriate reference to your work.

        It would be nice to CC: rjwagner@writeme.com and 
Cokus@math.washington.edu
        when you write."

This is not conform to the DFSG, even in 5.2.6-3. Please keep me updated, 
since the same code is also used in the latest php-suhosin upstream source and 
is preventing fixing some serious bugs in lenny.

Looking at http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/4301.html, there 
is a different license:

/* Copyright (C) 1997, 1999 Makoto Matsumoto and Takuji Nishimura. */
/* Any feedback is very welcome. For any question, comments,       */
/* see http://www.math.keio.ac.jp/matumoto/emt.html or email       */
/* matumoto@math.keio.ac.jp                                        */
Thanks and with kind regards, Jan.
-- 
Never write mail to <waja@spamfalle.info>, you have been warned!
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Author homepage: http://www.math.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~m-mat/MT/emt.html

Current license of the code
http://www.math.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~m-mat/MT/MT2002/elicense.html

So looks like documentation bug.

Ondrej.

2008/9/11 Jan Wagner <waja@cyconet.org>:
> Package: php5
> Version: 5.2.0-8
> Severity: serious
>
> Please have a look into line 144-148 of ext/standard/rand.c:
>
> "        When you use this, send an email to: matumoto@math.keio.ac.jp
>    with an appropriate reference to your work.
>
>        It would be nice to CC: rjwagner@writeme.com and
> Cokus@math.washington.edu
>        when you write."
>
> This is not conform to the DFSG, even in 5.2.6-3. Please keep me updated,
> since the same code is also used in the latest php-suhosin upstream source and
> is preventing fixing some serious bugs in lenny.
>
> Looking at http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/4301.html, there
> is a different license:
>
> /* Copyright (C) 1997, 1999 Makoto Matsumoto and Takuji Nishimura. */
> /* Any feedback is very welcome. For any question, comments,       */
> /* see http://www.math.keio.ac.jp/matumoto/emt.html or email       */
> /* matumoto@math.keio.ac.jp                                        */
> Thanks and with kind regards, Jan.
> --
> Never write mail to <waja@spamfalle.info>, you have been warned!
> -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
> Version: 3.1
> GIT d-- s+: a- C+++ UL++++ P+ L+++ E- W+++ N+++ o++ K++ w--- O M V- PS PE
> Y++ PGP++ t-- 5 X R tv- b+ DI- D++ G++ e++ h-- r+++ y+++
> ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
>
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> pkg-php-maint mailing list
> pkg-php-maint@lists.alioth.debian.org
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-php-maint
>

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Ondřej Surý <ondrej@sury.org>

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On Thursday 11 September 2008, Ondřej Surý wrote:
> Author homepage: http://www.math.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~m-mat/MT/emt.html
>
> Current license of the code
> http://www.math.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~m-mat/MT/MT2002/elicense.html
>
> So looks like documentation bug.

Okay ... but how to process here? The question is, on what version did Shawn 
Cokus base his work:

   The code as Shawn received it included the following notice:

     Copyright (C) 1997 Makoto Matsumoto and Takuji Nishimura.  When
     you use this, send an e-mail to <matumoto@math.keio.ac.jp> with
     an appropriate reference to your work.

   It would be nice to CC: <Cokus@math.washington.edu> when you write.

With kind regards, Jan
-- 
Never write mail to <waja@spamfalle.info>, you have been warned!
-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
Version: 3.1
GIT d-- s+: a- C+++ UL++++ P+ L+++ E- W+++ N+++ o++ K++ w--- O M V- PS PE
Y++ PGP++ t-- 5 X R tv- b+ DI- D++ G++ e++ h-- r+++ y+++
------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------

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Version: 6:4.4.6-2+rm

You filed the bug http://bugs.debian.org/499471 in Debian BTS
against the package php4. I'm closing it at *unstable*, but it will
remain open for older distributions.

For more information about this package's removal, read
http://bugs.debian.org/428266. That bug might give the reasons why
this package was removed and suggestions of possible replacements.

Don't hesitate to reply to this mail if you have any question.

Thank you for your contribution to Debian.

--
Marco Rodrigues

Debian Bug report logs - #499471 PHP5 - ext/standard/rand.c is not dfsg conform

Debian Bug report logs - #499471
PHP5 - ext/standard/rand.c is not dfsg conform