Matthias Urlichs <matth...@urlichs.de> writes: > Nevertheless, it is the forum where we-as-a-distribution are supposed to > arrive at a rough consensus on what's OK, legally, and what is not, thus > the discussion belongs there.
It's never been used that way for as long as I've been a project member. Instead, it's a discussion forum where lots of people argue about licenses before, during, and after the ftp-master team makes a final decision on the license. As near as I can tell, those two threads are parallel and have almost nothing to do with each other. (Almost nothing in the sense that I think the ftp-master team looks at individual messages that have good arguments, so they don't completely ignore that discussion.) On multiple occasions, the people who participate in debian-legal have reached what would appear to outsiders to be a consensus that's contrary to what the project actually does, and the project has just ignored them. I advise people to ignore that list, or at least treat it with a lot of skepticism, since for people just trying to solve problems it's usually more confusing than helpful. Many of the active participants historically have been advocates of a much more restrictive approach to licenses than what Debian actually does. It's usually more immediately useful to just upload the package with an explanation of the issues in debian/copyright and see what the ftp-master team says. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87k33sqbnv....@hope.eyrie.org
