On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 10:23:27AM +0000, MJ Ray wrote: > First off, I'm not sure that this is so different, because OpenWRT may > be expecting ease of bugfixing licensing to be one of the benefits of > copyright centralisation.
I will try to coordinate with OpenWRT in a real-time conversation to find out more of what they want, and will ask our lawyers any questions necessary to resolve the issue of whether SPI would be suitable for them. > Secondly, is it necessary to contact all past contributors, what legal > document would need to be signed by them and all current and future > contributors? I think the debian contributors interested in this > realise it's a potentially huge task, but SPI hasn't given an explicit > answer about what we can do to resolve it AFAIK. Yes, we can go off > at half-cock, based on some incorrect layman understanding, do a huge > task and then still find we've not fixed the bug, but I'd rather not, > OK? > > > I'm not saying this is impossible, but if I'm not mistaken, > > Debian hasn't even decided how it wants to resolve the issue, so SPI > > can't really do much. > > SPI has the lawyers. SPI needs to help find out what the debian > project's options for resolving this issue, please! > > Is that really the problem? SPI wants more direction from the debian > project still? I will ping Sam Hocevar and see what he thinks the status and priority of this is for him and for Debian, and will also continue catching up on -board archives since the end of my previous board term to see if there has been discussion since then with our lawyers. - Jimmy Kaplowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Spi-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.spi-inc.org/listinfo/spi-general
