7 Feb 2010 16:35
Re: Draft GR: Simplification of license and copyright requirements for the Debian packages.
Charles Plessy <plessy <at> debian.org>
2010-02-07 15:35:15 GMT
2010-02-07 15:35:15 GMT
Hello again everybody, I did not have much time recently, so here is a summary email that tries to answer in a single message all comments that I received in public or private. 1) About the exhaustive reproduction of all copyright notices. I have the feeling that there is a consensus that we do not need to do what laws and licenses are not commanding, but unless votes are counted with a GR, this is only my feeeling and nothing else. I think that a GR is the right instrument to check the consensus over big changes, and that the relaxation of our policy of documenting all copyright notices is a big change. A GR that is accepted by a large majority is not necessarly a waste of time, because it dissipates misunderstantings that can arise with tacite agreements. But yes, there are alternatives, like electing a DPL that supports this change in his platform. The proposition that I make is deliberatly not a Policy change. First of all, it would introduce diffcult debates whether it can be edited later without another GR. Second, I do not propose to replace the definition of debian/copyright. In particular, this GR says nothing about other contents of this file such as the URL to the sources. Rather, if accepted this GR would be the green light for a Policy change. 2) About the source of the Debian system. I would like to take the opportunity of this message to make a clarification on what I wrote about ignoring the DFSG (http://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/20100125010005.GF13715 <at> kunpuu.plessy.org).(Continue reading)
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