Le Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 02:08:29PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG a écrit : > On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 00:35 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > 3) Is there a benefit of allowing non-free files to be distributed together > > with the source of the Debian system ? > > Have you considered the harm? It means that users can no longer assume > that whatever is in the source packages can be distributed by them under > the DFSG. Especially since your proposal is all about making copyright > information harder to locate, you are making things far harder.
Hello Thomas, Indeed, there are pros and cons for my proposal. I have mentionned in my first message that with our current practice, our users know that – human errors excepted – everything they get along with the sources of the Debian system is DFSG-free. http://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/20100124144741.gd13...@kunpuu.plessy.org However, even when all the files are DFSG-free, one can not blindly redistribute or modify them, because we distribute works with an advertising clause, or works that require to rename the programs in case of modification. Therefore, one has anyway to check the licensing details for any DFGS-free file redistributed. About the visibility of the non-DFSG-free files: I wrote my proposal to be broad, not as a patch to the Policy. If the GR is voted and accepted, nothing prevents the Policy to require that non-DFSG-free files are marked as such in debian/copyright. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org