Re: Public Domain for Germans

2008-12-07 Thread Florian Weimer
* Bernhard R. Link: * Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [081104 21:29]: Word on the street is that you can't effectively disclaim warranty while putting something in the public domain. Well, as we are discussing the German POV, as German you cannot disclaim warrenty effectively at all as far

Re: web hosting providers' modified .debs

2008-12-07 Thread Florian Weimer
* Arnoud Engelfriet: Florian Weimer wrote: | You may make, run and propagate covered works that you do not | convey, without conditions so long as your license otherwise remains | in force. You may convey covered works to others for the sole purpose | of having them make modifications

Re: Building from source required?

2008-12-07 Thread Florian Weimer
* Marco d'Itri: It is not mandatory to fully rebuild a package every time the Debian binary package is generated, and in some cases it may be impractical and undesirable, but the following issues must be considered: - the package must contain source for all components, otherwise it would

Re: Building from source required?

2008-12-07 Thread Marco d'Itri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - the release manager (and probably the security team as well) must be comfortable with the result And the package should state *which* tool is required to rebuild the package. 8-/ This is why I mentioned the last condition, the build process should be fully automatic