This one time, at band camp, Russ Allbery said: > Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > This one time, at band camp, Russ Allbery said: > > >> I think it's fairly obvious that glibc meets the DFSG in practice, in > >> that no one is ever going to attempt to apply the ambiguous and > >> badly-written portions of the Sun RPC license in a way that might > >> violate the DFSG. It's certainly not an ideal situation, but on the > >> spectrum of licensing issues that we might ignore it's not one that > >> would keep me up at night. > > > > I'm personally not worried about the firmware issue, either, or at least > > for the ones where the vendors intent is clear, even though the 'source' > > (whatever that is or was) is missing. Unredistributable object code is > > unredistributable, and I don't think that's in question here. > > > > But maybe I'm misreading you - are you saying that you think it's also > > fine for those bits of blobs, since the vendors pretty clearly wanted > > them to be included in free projects? > > No, I'm saying that the Sun RPC code is a full source code release under a > BSD-style license. That the license is written poorly and buggily is not, > in practice, much of an issue, since no one is going to enforce it in a > non-free-software way. > > The situation is not at all comparable to firmware that doesn't include > source code. My point was not to say anything about firmware, simply to > point out that the two cases are very different and one cannot easily > reason about one from the other.
Then I suppose the best thing would be for you to downgrade the bug from RC. What I currently see is several RC bugs about DFSG issues, and lots of people arguing that we need a GR to release with one set, but not for the other. Presumably it's too inconvenient to move the entire archive to non-free. If we're going to release a badly broken Lenny, we might as well be consistent. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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