Hello,

On Thu 23 Apr 2020 at 01:09PM +03, Adrian Bunk wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 09:30:55PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote:
>> On Tue 10 Mar 2020 at 06:32PM +01, László Böszörményi (GCS) wrote:
>>
>> > Its CONTRIBUTING.md [3] adds: "Subject to applicable licensing rules,
>> > the repository content may be re-used freely, including the creation
>> > and publication of derivative works."
>> > In my reading this complies with DFSG. It's free to redistribute,
>> > source code is available and allows publication of derived works. It
>> > doesn't discriminate any persons, groups or fields of use. It doesn't
>> > restrict other software even.
>> > But of course, I would like to hear your opinion Sean and probably from 
>> > Jack.
>>
>> Based on what I've seen so far it is not clear to me that it's
>> DFSG-free.  The various files you reference contain links to various
>> policies, which might supercede the text you quote from CONTRIBUTING.md
>> (as "applicable licensing rules").
>
> So what is the way forward you suggest?
> Asking someone (who?) for advice?
> RC bug also against p11-kit?
> ...???

Well, didn't the bug submitter suggest an alternative header, which is
DFSG-free?  I'm afraid I don't know the details of this package; I just
tried to assess the freeness of a particular file as this was requested.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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