Ben Finney <ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au> writes: > Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> writes: > > IMO, the statement isn't particularly clear and I would not want > > Debian to rely on it. > > Not only that, it isn't an explicit statement from the copyright > holder at all; it's someone else reporting in their own words […]
> Better to re-write the license terms in a single document. Best, of > course, to simply choose an existing, widely-understood free software > license, and explicitly grant all of the work's recipients the license > under those terms. Mackenzie Morgan <maco...@gmail.com> writes: > I asked him before to release it under a Free license. He does not > wish to do so. Okay. The Debian project still needs the copyright holder's explicit license to redistribute, otherwise the work can't even be in ‘non-free’. -- \ “To punish me for my contempt of authority, Fate has made me an | `\ authority myself.” —Albert Einstein, 1930-09-18 | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org