Excerpts from Matthias Urlichs's message of 2014-06-26 11:17:04 -0700: > Hi, > > Steve Langasek: > > Ah good, argumentum ad populum, I was getting sick of Debian having > > principles anyway. > > > The point is that absolutely nobody else seems to be interested in this > strange licensing situation. Debian itself had the "problem" for YEARS and > nobody noticed. > > Thus, reality check #3: This license contains some strange terms that make > it look like it doesn't really apply to the software it's distributed with, > but QUITE OBVIOUSLY the author of the software in question thought other- > wise, and there is no actual legal problem (nobody else is complaining > about the license, much less threatening to revoke permissions, much less > suing somebody). > > Thus², while we're in a reasonably good position to convince Upstream to > fix that problem, filing RC bugs and thus making PHP unuseable in Debian > is certainly going to be regarded as typical Debian principles-above-all > overkill but unlikely to be helpful to anybody. >
Oh good, another discussion where we argue against our principles. I was getting bored with all of those purely technical discussions about systemd (PLEASE DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS JOKE). If anyone has a better way to safeguard those to whom we distribute software, please do speak up about it. I for one think our users choose Debian because they can be sure their rights are being looked after. Let's do what we can to help upstream rectify the situation, but lets also be honest with our users while they respond. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1403806963-sup-3...@fewbar.com
