-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 01:56:34PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: >> I guess that permission to distribute would have to include permission >> to distribute further modified versions, like security fixes, ASAP >> without further contact to the authors. Permission for _anybody_ to >> redistribute it is not necessary for non-free, right? > > Permission for others to distribute is not required, no. > > Permission to make security fixes is not required, either (we distribute > some binary-only packages in non-free), though I don't imagine the > Security Team will love you for adding more such packages to the > archive. I wouldn't want that, too. >> But, most importantly, who is "The Debian Project", which would be >> granted the permission, in this sense? Everybody who runs a server with >> a *.debian.org DNS name? Or are there more complete mirrors than these? >> Or are the administrators of mirrors not responsible at all, but only >> ftp-master? To whom would a written letter have to be addressed? > > In effect, permission would have to be granted to our complete mirror > network, which includes many sites not under the .debian.org domain, > often run by people not directly affiliated with Debian. So I will ask him to use the term "complete Debian mirror network". Thank you very much, Frank - -- Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/0HcL+xs9YyJS+hoRAm1mAJ4sX+VRWmDsrU2Pv0Yp+8wfktZm7gCdEnv7 TsjpWT3QleVa4bZJWapGYa8= =DOc1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
