Sean Kellogg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wednesday 19 December 2007 04:49:04 pm Ben Finney wrote: > > Debian considers the freedom of works, not license texts in > > isolation. > > Debian-legal reviews license text in isolation all the time.
Perhaps. However, Debian isn't interested in freedom of licenses, only in freedom of works to be distributed. > > Thanks for this. So, this translates to a request to review the > > legal freedom of the current Parrot package, yes? > > You've got to be kidding, right?! Here we have an outside > organization asking for input on a license and you feel like they > didn't formulation their question correctly enough to warrant your > time and energy to respond, but did warrant your time and energy to > criticize? Seriously? I'm at a loss to see where you find my post to contain criticism. I was asking a question to clarify the intent of the original poster. > > I presume you're asking for a review of a package (or the latest > > version of a package) that is not yet in Debian. Where do we find > > the current copyright statement, grant of license, and the license > > terms? > > I think you've presumed yourself into being a grade A quality jerk. > The question was simple, the text was provided The question was simple but didn't contain some information I found necessary. Rather than get ticked off about it, or make assumptions about what the request actually was, I made a polite enquiry for clarification and more information. At the point where I replied, the only message in this thread was the one that started the thread, Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. In that message, the license text wasn't provided, nor linked to, and neither was it clear which source package the request was about. > Boy... haven't been this ticked off by a post on d-l in a long time. If you're offended by polite requests for clarification and more information, that's unfortunate. I won't let it get in the way of asking for clarification in future. -- \ "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though | `\ nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is." | _o__) —Albert Einstein | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
