Evan Prodromou dijo [Thu, May 18, 2006 at 04:08:57PM -0400]: > >However, one thing that Debian is not good at, is providing > >authoritative statements about licenses. It would be great if you could > >find a way to change that somehow, but otherwise.. > I think it'd be nice if we could put together some sort of official > authoritative statements about licenses, although I don't think that's > something that's going to happen any time soon. > > What might be a second-best approximation is a pragmatic, descriptive > approach. That is, if there's an unofficial statement, plus the > existence proof of works under the license being in Debian, it would > probably not be unreasonable for a third party to say, "Works available > under this license are suitable for inclusion in Debian."
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