Re: unknown license for package/debian/* in d/copyright in adopted package

Dear Debian Legal Team, Thank you very much for your help. I've read each email in this thread with care, and at last can consider this issue closed. On 9 June 2017 at 02:27, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > On 06/08/2017 06:52 PM, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: >> >> >> I'd prefer

Re: unknown license for package/debian/* in d/copyright in adopted package

On 06/08/2017 06:52 PM, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: I'd prefer not to, because Message-ID reveals what I consider private information (IP address or client hostname) to an unbounded audience, and I believe that this is a greater privacy violation than the lintian warning against downloading a

Re: unknown license for package/debian/* in d/copyright in adopted package

Hi Ben, On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 10:24:11AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > Nicholas D Steeves writes: > > > I pushed updates here: > > > > https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-emacsen/pkg/muse-el.git/tree/debian/COPYING.emails > > That's a good record. Better than most Debian

Re: unknown license for package/debian/* in d/copyright in adopted package

Nicholas D Steeves writes: > I pushed updates here: > > https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-emacsen/pkg/muse-el.git/tree/debian/COPYING.emails That's a good record. Better than most Debian packages, I'd say :-) Can you put the Message-ID field for each message in the header

Re: unknown license for package/debian/* in d/copyright in adopted package

On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 02:54:57PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > Ian Jackson writes: > > > Do you agree that my mail exchange as found in the sympathy package is > > a good example of how to ask these questions, and how to record the > > answers ? > > Ian Jackson

Re: unknown license for package/debian/* in d/copyright in adopted package

Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes: > Ben Finney writes ("Re: unknown license for package/debian/* in d/copyright > in adopted package"): > > Are there messages in that file that could be removed? I typically > > try to get a single

Re: unknown license for package/debian/* in d/copyright in adopted package

Ben Finney writes ("Re: unknown license for package/debian/* in d/copyright in adopted package"): > Are there messages in that file that could be removed? I typically try > to get a single message from the copyright holder, that contains an > explicit and unambiguous grant of

Re: unknown license for package/debian/* in d/copyright in adopted package

Ian Jackson writes: > Do you agree that my mail exchange as found in the sympathy package is > a good example of how to ask these questions, and how to record the > answers ? Ian Jackson writes: > I meant this, which I provided

Re: unknown license for package/debian/* in d/copyright in adopted package

Ben Finney writes ("Re: unknown license for package/debian/* in d/copyright in adopted package"): > As to how to record the information, I would expect to find it in the > ‘debian/copyright’ file, and I don't see what you're referring to at > <URL:https://sources.debian.

Re: unknown license for package/debian/* in d/copyright in adopted package

On Wed, 04 Jan 2017 at 02:16:10 +, Ian Jackson wrote: > This benefit IMO far outweighs the risk that at some point someone > will abuse our goodwill to make Debian-format source packages out of > proprietary software. No-one, not even evil people, would want to do > that. As a consultant

Re: unknown license for package/debian/* in d/copyright in adopted package

Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes: > Ben Finney writes ("Re: unknown license for package/debian/* in d/copyright > in adopted package"): > > The principle is to consider what a hypothetical future package > > maintainer, or FTP master or reci

Re: unknown license for package/debian/* in d/copyright in adopted package

Ben Finney writes ("Re: unknown license for package/debian/* in d/copyright in adopted package"): > Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes: > > I would encourage everyone who does packaging to explictly licence > > your debian/* with some very permi

Re: unknown license for package/debian/* in d/copyright in adopted package

Ian Jackson writes: > Nicholas D Steeves writes ("unknown license for package/debian/* in > d/copyright in adopted package"): > > I'm adopting src:muse-el, and the old d/copyright file does not > > state which license the old debian/* uses. > > This kind of

Re: unknown license for package/debian/* in d/copyright in adopted package

Nicholas D Steeves writes ("unknown license for package/debian/* in d/copyright in adopted package"): > I'm adopting src:muse-el, and the old d/copyright file does not state > which license the old debian/* uses. This kind of thing is quite annoying. I would encourage everyone who does