Source: rsyslog
Version: 8.2504.0-1
Severity: serious
Justification: code and/or documentation probably non-free
Our friends from Gentoo have uncovered this:
https://social.treehouse.systems/@mgorny/114835815375250264
In the linked-to article, the rsyslog author admits to having
used so-called “AI” over the past 24 (!) months. This means that
the code and/or documentation in recent releases is very likely
non-free, as it’s created by mechanically transforming existing
works without honouring their licences, and without even the
possibility of auditing.
This makes recent releases of rsyslog not suitable for main,
especially not as default syslogd implementation.
I recognise that this short before the trixie release is a bad
timing, but the author of rsyslog admits at having done this
underhandedly hidden for the last two years, so…
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Personally, I’ve been happy with inetutils-syslogd, and, given
that many people would use systemd-journald’s features these days
anyway, it inetutils-syslogd probably makes for a better choice
as default syslogd implementation in Debian, forwarded to from
systemd-journald on systems using that (AIUI not even by default
any more). People who do rely on rsyslog can then install it from
non-free after initial system setup.
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