On Sat, 21 Apr 2012, Andreas Tille wrote: > I admit I consider this datum as the weakest of all I want to gather. > Perhaps I will go rather with the fact whether a package is in main or > in contrib / non-free and just use "DFSG free" as I'm currently using > for any Debian package in main. I actually do not see much value in > rendering the exact license because the final piece of information is > whether the potential taker would spend his time into a free or non-free > piece of software. I'd regard any gain for more detail as a waste of > time. As I said, this is some first experiment with uncertain outcome.
well DFSG free != DFSG free ;-) information (even coarse and over-generalized) on licensing might be of interest for people overviewing task pages in search for a license-compatible library > experience says that before there is something to present the interest > will remain low. also even if interest is high, it might be too time consuming for readers to adequately follow discussion of WiP . Distilled/concise presentation of some milestone achievements might bring more feedback. (just my 1c) > Even if the issue is very burning (like for instance > with BiBref issues where I know for sure at least three persons who were > very interested) people claim to have no time and loose track in the > discussion. (Just been there, explained the main important points of > the BibRef gatherer in PM after I was told that the discussion was > basically ignored.) sorry -- I haven't read in full before replied above which just confirms your statement here ;) > discussion. My code is not yet functional (you might have read my > requests for help for the python-debian module - I probably will do some I think I have seen it but missed it :-/ would it be too much to ask a reference to the request? Best regards, -- =------------------------------------------------------------------= Keep in touch www.onerussian.com Yaroslav Halchenko www.ohloh.net/accounts/yarikoptic -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
