Charles Plessy <[email protected]> writes: > Le Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 06:42:31PM +1100, Ben Finney a écrit : > > Not only that, it isn't an explicit statement from the copyright > > holder at all; it's someone else reporting in their own words: […]
> > That's far from what we normally require: explicit written license > > in the copyright holder's own words. > > I do not know who ‘we’ are in this story, but the fact that the above > URL stems from packages.debian.org demonstrates that the statement was > enough for the package to be accepted in the Debian archive. This doesn't contradict what I've said: that the Debian project *normally* (AFAICT) requires explicit written license terms from the copyright holder. Nor does the fact that the package *was* in the archive mean that it will be again accepted without explicit written license to redistribute. I think it's unlikely that an alert ftpmaster would today allow it into the archive in such a state, and I'm alerting the maintainer of this. -- \ “Courage is not the absence of fear, but the decision that | `\ something else is more important than fear.” —Ambrose Redmoon | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
