On Tue, Mar 24, 2026 at 11:16:21AM +0100, Marilyn Bretherick wrote:
Dear Guillem Jover and Debian Project, I am writing as a member of the public to respectfully request written confirmation regarding publicly available information hosted in the official Debian package repository at packages.debian.org. I understand this repository to constitute a public record maintained under the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3 (GNU AGPLv3+).
My inquiry is grounded in these published standards and in the rights granted to me as a recipient of software distributed under the GNU AGPLv3+, specifically the rights affirmed under Sections 2, 4, and 10 of that license.
I am making this request solely for personal verification and documentation purposes. I am exercising rights expressly granted to me as a recipient of software distributed under the GNU AGPLv3+ and as a member of the public engaging with a publicly hosted open source repository governed by the Debian Policy Manual. I intend to retain any written response as part of my permanent personal records.
You may be mistakenly associating Debian and/or dpkg with AGPL but also I'm not sure if the listed sections of that license give you rights to request all of this information.
You are, of course, free to *ask*. You are even free to copy your questions to [email protected] or any other existing or non-existing email addresses.
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Perfect. -- WBR, wRAR
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