On Tue, 25 Jul 2017, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 04:39:21PM +0200, MENGUAL Jean-Philippe wrote: > > Right but if Debian could subscribe to such service, it could freely > > generate as EANs as needed for their releases, installers, liveDVDs. But > > indeed, maybe it is not the easiest solution. > > I think it does make sense to have EANs for Debian, but perhaps it isn't > necessary to have an EAN for *everything* we produce. > > E.g., we could have: > > - An EAN for CD1, DVD1, and BD1 for every architecture, > - An EAN for the various live images > - An EAN for "the full set" of DVD and BD images > > There's no need to have an EAN for, say, the armel DVD#10 or some such. > > Alternatively, we could assign EANs on a by-request basis; if a media > vendor wants to sell a particular (set of) image(s) on amazon or some > other such site that doesn't have an EAN yet, provide a contact for them > to request an EAN for that set.
Run that through some legal advice, though. If "we" (Debian, SPI, etc) get to be co-responsible for the actions of someone using our EANs with permission [in some relevant juridisction], it is best to not have them in the first place. -- Henrique Holschuh
