On Fri, Sep 19 2008, Miriam Ruiz wrote: > 2008/9/19 Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >>> The GPL version 2 permits it to display copyright notices and warranty >>> disclaimers, without being allowed to patch them away. This can be made >>> more obnoxious than one-time click-through EULAs, I fear. >> >> That doesn't mean we should accept those in our distribution. We can >> make a policy decision that end-users should not have to deal with >> those. > > It makes sense. The same way that we're not allowing GFDL packages > with invariant sections, we might not want this feature/bug of GPL to > be used for that either. I would support making such a decision.
Except that policy says nothing about actual licenses. It refers to the DFSG, and tells people to ask debian-legal (heh). The policy document is "technical" policy, and leaves non-technical stuff like what is free or not to foundation documents (and debian-legal). For example, it mentions nothing about gfdl and invariant bits. manoj -- You may my glories and my state dispose, But not my griefs; still am I king of those.-- William Shakespeare, "Richard II" Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.debian.org/~srivasta/> 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]