On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 01:21:07 +0100 MJ Ray wrote: > Francesco Poli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Could you please phrase what you would consider an accurate (non > > misleading) credit? > > "kernel-image-2.6.8-2-386.deb by the Debian kernel team and others"
I'm really losing you here... :-( You are basically saying that crediting the author(s) of *any* work upon which yours is based is misleading credit and could get you sued for false attribution. That sounds really unbelievable to me, since "kernel-image-2.6.8-2-386.deb by the Debian kernel team and others" seems much more misleading and false than "kernel-image-2.6.8-2-386.deb by the Debian kernel team, based on the Linux kernel by Linus Torvalds and others" Actually I would feel more in danger of being sued for false attribution if I stated the former, than the latter. What you seem to claim is that I can take the Debian GNU/Linux distribution, make some modifications (e.g.: I could purge all those nasty GFDL'd documents from main!), rename it as PoliOS and state something like: "PoliOS is the Free operating system created by Francesco Poli and others" All I would say about the hard work by present and past DDs, and by upstream authors is that little "and others". This would be accurate credit, you say? I really cannot understand, perhaps... :-( [...] > > I would rather suggest: start from a clearly DFSG-free license and > > do nothing else. > > So would I, but what do you do when that fails? Try and explain the issues better, perhaps... > > > I mean: there are bugs that have already been marked as "done" > > because of GR-2006-001. > > This sounds like "This bug is not a bug". > > I agree. I've seen one in your bug log and it was a shame. I've seen #334908 and #323687, so far. [...] > I don't know what to say to encourage continuing with bug hunting. [...] > Personally, I'd also be interested in a quick "what I'm > looking at now" newsletters/blog. I'm sure I quite understand what you mean: are you saying that you'd be interested in seeing *my* blog? I haven't (yet) entered the so-called blogosphere... -- :-( This Universe is buggy! Where's the Creator's BTS? ;-) ...................................................................... Francesco Poli GnuPG Key ID = DD6DFCF4 Key fingerprint = C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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