-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03-02-2005 13:57, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi, > > I just subscribed to this list, read the archives from last summer, esp. > http://albatross.madduck.net/pipermail/gammu-legal/2004-October/000112.html > and would like to hear your comments regarding the solution of > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=266566. > > If I understood the patches from October correctly, the bug fix is there and > "only" has to be applied to the debian packages ?
Only the authors of Gnokii can solve legal issues of their own software. The patch at gammu-legal is a _proposal_ made by the person unhappy with Gnokii and not (anymore) part of Gnokii. Upstream may choose to adopt that proposed patch, but from the thread of the bugreport it seems they acknowledge the problem (at least as a possibility) but choose to solve it differently. Debian cannot "solve" this issue by patching copyright and/or licensing notes of the upstream software. Only possible fixes is the following (as I see it): * Remove gnokii from the archive * Wait for fix provided by upstream * Consider this a non-bug and simply close this bugreport. > Hach, is life easy if you only have to quote three URLs to convey your > message :-) Indeed :-) - Jonas P.S. The very reason Gnokii can solve the issue differently than has been judged the only solution technically possible for a similar issue of the competing program Gammu is their use of a version control system. - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ - Enden er nær: http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCAj5kn7DbMsAkQLgRAmUXAJ902rup8JyzalTlltwYkH84Y/FQNwCgg5pa R7YHlsaB6Dnft95YKlV/rBM= =PKmR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
