Re: Q for all candidates: license and copyright requirements

2010-03-21 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 02:42:51PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit : > > On the contrary, I'm against point (2) of the GR. I do consider our > source packages to be part of Debian and hence subject to DFSG. If > something in upstream tarball is non-free, I believe we should do > repacking (there

Re: Q for all candidates: license and copyright requirements

2010-03-21 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, Mar 21 2010, Russ Allbery wrote: > Stefano Zacchiroli writes: > >> On the contrary, I'm against point (2) of the GR. I do consider our >> source packages to be part of Debian and hence subject to DFSG. If >> something in upstream tarball is non-free, I believe we should do >> repacking (t

Re: Q for all candidates: license and copyright requirements

2010-03-21 Thread Russ Allbery
Stefano Zacchiroli writes: > On the contrary, I'm against point (2) of the GR. I do consider our > source packages to be part of Debian and hence subject to DFSG. If > something in upstream tarball is non-free, I believe we should do > repacking (there, we might use a bit more standardization on

Re: Q for all candidates: license and copyright requirements

2010-03-21 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 01:49:28PM +0100, Bernd Zeimetz a écrit : > Charles Plessy wrote: > > 2) I think that the Debian operating system is defined by the interaction > > of > > its binary version and the source files necessary to use, study, > > modifiy and > > redistribute it. Non-DFS

Re: Q for all candidates: license and copyright requirements

2010-03-21 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 07:45:30PM +0100, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > with <20100124144741.gd13...@kunpuu.plessy.org> Charles Plessy came up > with a draft GR "Simplification of license and copyright requirements > for the Debian packages.". > > From the other candidates I'd like to know their opinion

Re: Q for all candidates: license and copyright requirements

2010-03-21 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Charles Plessy wrote: > 2) I think that the Debian operating system is defined by the interaction of > its binary version and the source files necessary to use, study, modifiy > and > redistribute it. Non-DFSG-free files that happen to be codistributed with > the > source of the Debi

Re: Q for all candidates: license and copyright requirements

2010-03-21 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 07:45:30PM +0100, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > From the other candidates I'd like to know their opinion and plans (if there > are any) about license/copyright requirements in Debian. I have no specific plans. My opinion on the subject is that while there may be good reasons for