----- "Christian Perrier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just finally tagged, with the RM team "blessing", bug #424957 as > "lenny-ignore". > > The general rationale is that the Right Approach, which is talking to > Sun, only happened very recently, thanks to Ean's > initiative.....which > triggered immediate commitment by Simon Phipps to do what's needed to > deal with that licensing issue. > > However, the general feeling is that sorting out such legalese stuff > might need time and, as someone said in the thread, asking Sun > lawyers > to hurry up is just like asking Debian to release Lenny now". > > So, I'd like to make the very same proposal for that bug than the one > I did for #424957: tag the issue as lenny-ignore so that it doesn't > block the release (nobody is thinking we will release without glibc, > right?) and that gives time to sort out the legalese stuff. > > Objections? > > (I think the release team would agree just as they did for #424957)
It makes perfect sense to me. If Sun was hostile to us releasing the code it would be a different matter but I think its clear that they want to help us. I think its clear that Sun will not go after us for the finicky "complete program" language in the current license. Simon, would say that's a safe bet? -- Ean Schuessler, CTO Brainfood.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.brainfood.com - 214-720-0700 x 315 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
