Re: Re: remove this package from another developer (

2004-07-19 Thread luther
Yes, you can. Whether the package should be removed or not, that's for the ftp-masters to decide. That such kinds of bug reports could be done in a nicer way, well, that's probably true, but still... Well, i have the impression that there is a false claim. I have been reading this thread, and

Re: remove this package from another developer

2004-07-15 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 10:41:00AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: * Branden Robinson: On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 01:09:13PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 10:35:25PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 02:03:37PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:

Re: remove this package from another developer (was: Bug#251983: Please remove libcwd from main; it is licensed under the QPL, which is non-free.)

2004-07-15 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 10:23:00PM +0200, Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader wrote: * Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-07-14 02:55]: I fail to see why debian-legal's undelegated status is at all relevant given our current leadership philsophy. The difference is that

Re: remove this package from another developer

2004-07-15 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 02:21:35AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: In any event, the Technical Committee and Project Secretary are not and cannot be delegates under the Constitution[1]. Additionally, most port- and CDD-maintainers are not delegates (and they certainly are not delegates in their

Re: remove this package from another developer

2004-07-14 Thread Florian Weimer
* Branden Robinson: On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 01:09:13PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 10:35:25PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 02:03:37PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: debian-legal is an undelegated advisory body. Ultimately, the final decision

Re: remove this package from another developer (was: Bug#251983: Please remove libcwd from main; it is licensed under the QPL, which is non-free.)

2004-07-14 Thread Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader
* Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-07-14 02:55]: Okay, fair enough. Archive administration is done by those who roll up their sleeves and do it -- the people on other end of [EMAIL PROTECTED]. By the same token, public DFSG-based analysis of licenses and how they are applied to the

Re: remove this package from another developer (was: Bug#251983: Please remove libcwd from main; it is licensed under the QPL, which is non-free.)

2004-07-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 10:35:25PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 02:03:37PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: debian-legal is an undelegated advisory body. Ultimately, the final decision lies with the archive maintainers. I see. Where are the archive maintainers'

Re: remove this package from another developer (was: Bug#251983: Please remove libcwd from main; it is licensed under the QPL, which is non-free.)

2004-07-12 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004.07.12.1409 +0200]: IIRC, Martin mentioned this the last time you asked about delegations, too. Thanks Colin. I would appreciate if this issue was left to myself. I am working with the author through the problems and hope to get libcwd freed. I

Re: remove this package from another developer

2004-07-11 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 10 Jul 2004, Ben Pfaff wrote: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As far as licenses go, if the consensus in debian-legal is that something is non-free, you lose. Where in official Debian documents (e.g. constitution, policy manual, etc.) do you see such a

Re: remove this package from another developer (was: Bug#251983: Please remove libcwd from main; it is licensed under the QPL, which is non-free.)

2004-07-11 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 02:03:37PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: debian-legal is an undelegated advisory body. Ultimately, the final decision lies with the archive maintainers. I see. Where are the archive maintainers' official delegations? -- G. Branden Robinson| The

Re: remove this package from another developer

2004-07-11 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 11:31:43PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: It is not. But as far as I have gathered so far, once d-l gets into a consensus that something is not DFSG-compliant, it gets quite difficult to convince someone that matters (one of the ftp-masters) that you're

remove this package from another developer (was: Bug#251983: Please remove libcwd from main; it is licensed under the QPL, which is non-free.)

2004-07-10 Thread Andreas Barth
* Brian M. Carlson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040709 23:40]: debian-legal has adjudged the QPL non-free, and the maintainer refuses to move this package to non-free; therefore, I am requesting its removal in an effort to lower the number of RC bugs. See the -legal discussion [0]. Sorry, but this

Re: remove this package from another developer (was: Bug#251983: Please remove libcwd from main; it is licensed under the QPL, which is non-free.)

2004-07-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 09:54:04AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Sat, 10 Jul 2004, Andreas Barth wrote: * Brian M. Carlson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040709 23:40]: debian-legal has adjudged the QPL non-free, and the maintainer refuses to move this package to non-free;

Re: remove this package from another developer (was: Bug#251983: Please remove libcwd from main; it is licensed under the QPL, which is non-free.)

2004-07-10 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 10 Jul 2004, Andreas Barth wrote: * Brian M. Carlson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040709 23:40]: debian-legal has adjudged the QPL non-free, and the maintainer refuses to move this package to non-free; therefore, I am requesting its removal in an effort to lower the number of RC bugs. See