Re: Draft GR: Simplification of license and copyright requirements for the Debian packages.

2010-02-07 Thread Charles Plessy
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

Re: Draft GR: Simplification of license and copyright requirements for the Debian packages.

2010-02-07 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 00:35 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: 3) Is there a benefit of allowing non-free files to be distributed together with the source of the Debian system ? Have you considered the harm? It means that users can no longer assume that whatever is in the source packages can be