]] Jonas Smedegaard > Would you (the plural you - all those responding so far, and everyone > reading this who has voting power in Debian) prefer that Debian > considered "too-strictly-free" packaging a release-critical bug and > reason for rejection in NEW queue screening?
mu. Like a few others in the thread, as a general rule, I don't consider the packaging as copyrightable. (There are obviously counterexamples to this.) However, If you do claim that it is copyrightable by putting a license on it, I think using a different license than upstream is poor form. Packaging someone's work is, hopefully, a respectful and collaborative activity with upstream where they'll accomodate reasonable requests from the packager, and vice versa. Choosing a different license than upstream seems like adding unnecessary friction to that relationship. (This assumes a free license for the upstream code, if it's non-free, I'd say different expectations apply.) I don't think violating this expectation and social norm is grounds for rejection from NEW, but having the reviewer note it and give you some friction for it seems appropriate to me. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are
