Lucas Nussbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > It seems to me that, for this issue to be solved, we first need a > clear consensus on debian-www@ about: > - the plan we are going to follow
I believe we need legal advice on the validity of the various plans before there will be a clear consensus on one. The relevant published legal opinions on relicensing were commissioned by people who appear to have interests in copyright assignments, which the debian project does not share. > - the license we are going to use There seemed to be broad consensus on BSD-style as default with other DFSG licences like GPLv2 being allowed, didn't there? > It could be a good idea to write a DEP about that, so other developers > have a clear document to read and understand (as opposed to a bug log). Maybe. What's the current DEP HOWTO? > Questions about that issue: > 1) You seem to think that delegating someone now would be useful. Why? I think we should ask a debian-tied lawyer before doing a lot of unfun work which may turn out to be useless if we get it wrong. I'm not confident that we can do this through SPI unless the DPL or a delegate asks, because some SPI members seem to oppose it without that. Even so, I think SPI is the best route for the project to ask a lawyer. > 2) Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña's plan include: > | b) old contributors to the web site [..] should be contacted and ask to > | agree to this license change. > | > | c) a note should be added to the Debian site [..] describing the > | license change [..] and giving a 6 month period for comments. > > If some old contributors can't be contacted, would a note on the website > visible for 6 months be legally enough to move forward with the license > change? Later, you suggested shortening that period. Is this legally > possible? I expect the validity of using a general notice depends more on whether it was reasonably prominent, rather than having a 6 month comment period, but I don't know: I am not a lawyer. Are you? If not, can we ask one of ours, if Raphael becomes DPL? Hope that clarifies, -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only: see http://people.debian.org/~mjr/ Please follow http://www.uk.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct
