On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 09:00:27AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Wed, 30 Aug 2006, Mike Hommey wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 07:17:47PM -0700, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL > > PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 08:48:00PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > > > > > > > Debian needs to make a decision on how it will deal with this legal > > > > minefield. That is higher priority than the entire discussion going on > > > > right now, because it determines whether Debian will distribute these 53 > > > > BLOBs *at all*, in 'main' or in 'non-free'. > > > > > > > Oddly enough nobody has proposed a GR addressing this, > > > > > > Because voting is an absurd means of settling questions of legal > > > liability. > > > It's the domain of the ftp team to determine whether we can legally > > > distribute a package on our mirrors. > > > > So, all in all, all this fuss for seven blobs ? waw, what a waste of > > time. > > 53 + 7 = 60.
Re-read Nathanael's mail. The blobs that are concerned by all the discussion that has happened so far, and wasted a lot of time, are 7. The 53 are those that have licenses that technically don't allow redistribution. > Please Mike, you have lately a tendency to inflame discussions for > nothing. You've used me to expect better from you. I'm just pissed about all this waste of time discussing in the void while a release is "supposed" to happen in 3 months. And here I'm not only talking about this particular thread. Mike PS: Don't worry, you won't hear a lot from me since I'll be on vacation from saturday for almost 3 weeks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
