On Tue, Mar 24, 2026 at 11:19:55AM +0100, Marilyn Bretherick wrote: > I am writing as a member of the public to respectfully request written > confirmation regarding publicly available information hosted in the > official Debian package repository at packages.debian.org. I understand > this repository to constitute a public record maintained under the GNU > Affero General Public License, version 3 (GNU AGPLv3+).
Everything you're asking for is public information (start from https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/man-db), but from the extremely formal legal way you're asking I worry that I would somehow open myself up to some kind of surprise liability by answering. While I'm generally committed to transparency, releasing software to you under the GPLv3+ (man-db is not under the AGPLv3+) doesn't obligate me to spend arbitrary amounts of time personally answering questions about it. If there's anything that you can't figure out yourself from the tracker, can you please ask those specific questions in a way that doesn't sound like I'm being subjected to discovery processes in a legal dispute? I'm not a lawyer and don't have one immediately to hand. Regards, -- Colin Watson (he/him) [[email protected]]
