On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 09:40:39PM +0100, Václav Jůza wrote: > > Right now, it looks a bit overwhelming to me, but that's more because of > > the bewildering nature of (non-free) software licensing. > I formerly thought about less categories (no no-*), but when I was giving > tags to the example packages, I decided, that there is far different, when > package can be distributed, but only free of charge, and when the package > can not be redistributable at all.
> > Do you care for asking our lawyers at debian-legal about it? > I have not asked them yet. Actually I don't know, what to ask them exactly > about. Simply, what they think about it? I've tried contacting them in the past[1] and unfortunately what came out was lots of nitpicking but little help towards getting anything done. [1] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debtags-devel/2005-June/000414.html It should be tried again (also, this time the issue is different), but when writing them I think it should be more of an "help us in getting this done" rather than a "tell us what you think". As of the proposed tags, they seem to be calling for more grouping. Let me try to rework it a bit: Facet: restricted Tag: restricted::bin:use Tag: restricted::bin:dist Tag: restricted::bin:change (included for simmetry, maybe meaningless) Tag: restricted::src:use (or study) Tag: restricted::src:dist Tag: restricted::src:change Tag: restricted::deps:run Tag: restricted::deps:build It looks a bit more elegant to me, and it seems to be better able to distinguish restrictions like pine (can't redistribute binary, can redistribute source). It also doesn't try to describe more in detail what is the sort of restriction, which would probably be impossible giving the crazy draconian things people write in licenses sometimes. Actually, 'elegant' doesn't sound right for something as stinky as software restrictions ;) but that isn't indeed your fault and I really appreciate your efforts in sorting this out. Ciao, Enrico -- GPG key: 1024D/797EBFAB 2000-12-05 Enrico Zini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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