On Sun, 15 Feb 2015, Christoph Biedl wrote: > every now and then I receive submissions (i.e. patches) by e-mail for > packages I maintain. Sometimes a disclaimer¹ is part of that message, > a text that denies me from doing certain things with that e-mail - > like copying or disclosing the message. > > In my opinion using such a patch for an upload would violate that > clause and therefore might even put the Debian project in jeopardy.
There's no real difference between a message with a disclaimer, and one without. The only question is the actual license of the patch. If the person authoring the patch grants a license (or the patch cannot be covered by copyright), then there's no problem. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com No amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free [...] You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. -- Robert Heinlein _Revolt in 2010_ p54 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150215202035.gg27...@teltox.donarmstrong.com
