Hi! * Marcos Marado <mindboosterno...@gmail.com> [2010-08-17 16:47:19 CEST]: > Since this is an RC bug (thanks to the attribution issue), I guess that the > best way to quickly solve this is to: > 1) split this bug in two, one for the inclusion of two different .cow files > (wishlist, even if .cow's are harmless, I guess that adding them at this > point would be a policy violation, and the best way would be to ask > upstream to add them anyway), and the other for the licensing issues;
There is no need to split it in two - that got done four years ago already and the two cow files are even part of the package since almost the same amount of time: #367310 > 2) since there are no fundament for the suspicion that some .cow files have > attribution missing (besides kitty.cow), either than the fact that "if it > happened to one, it might have happen to other" we can assume that the > only > faulty .cow is kitty.cow You challenged me and it didn't took me long to also find Felix Lee attribution for the daemon: http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/daemon_ascii.txt The assumption thus is proven with minor effort as being wrong, sorry. :/ > 3) I've seen kitty ASCII from kitty.cow in three different ways (with "Felix > Lee", with "fl" and without anything) -- as a matter of fact there are > also > two different variants of it, one with spaces in the paws and other > without > them -- but I think there's no dispute anywhere regarding if it is by > Felix > or not, so just to be sure we can add either "Felix Lee" or "fl" to > this .cow file, and have the RC part of this bug fixed. Actually Felix did produce a whole lot of different kitten art so it's no surprise to find ones with different spacing, or even different tails. Adding the attribution into the comment section should be sufficient, though ... Unfortunately that's not enough about the RC part of this bug because that is about missing licensing information, wether we actually are allowed to distribute or modify them. People might consider ascii art as something laughable, but it's still creative output and should be respected the same. So without having license information that allows us to distribute and/or modify these things we shouldn't ship them in main, the much that I would hate having them removed myself. Thanks for understanding, Rhonda -- "Lediglich 11 Prozent der Arbeitgeber sind der Meinung, dass jeder Mensch auch ein Privatleben haben sollte." -- http://www.karriere.at/artikel/884/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
