Le Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 07:45:30PM +0100, Bernd Zeimetz a écrit : > Hi all, > > with <[email protected]> Charles Plessy came up with a > draft GR "Simplification of license and copyright requirements for the Debian > packages.". > > I'd like to know from Charles Plessy if the draft from January still reflect > his > current opinion or if his mind changed.
Dear Bernd, my current opinion is reflected by <[email protected]>, in which I clarified my proposal according to the first round of comments. In summary: 1) For the reproduction of copyright notices, let's do what law and licenses require from us, and not more. 2) I think that the Debian operating system is defined by the interaction of its binary version and the source files necessary to use, study, modifiy and redistribute it. Non-DFSG-free files that happen to be codistributed with the source of the Debian operating system but have no function at all are not part of the system, and I would like maintainers to be allowed to keep these files in the original upstream material if it simplifies their work. Lastly, I am not sure if I will ask sponsors for this GR, as I wrote: ‘A GR that is accepted by a large majority is not necessarly a waste of time, because it dissipates misunderstantings that can arise with tacite agreements. But yes, there are alternatives, like electing a DPL that supports this change in his platform.’ So I am definitely interested to read the opinion of the other candidates :) Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
