[ this thread comes from libdvdcss ITP #154281 ] On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 01:21:53PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 02:01:46PM +0000, Robert Millan wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 11:31:08AM +0200, Sam Hocevar wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 30, 2003, Robert Millan wrote: > > > > As for the legal advice, what do you mean? Do you suggest that we > > > > hire a lawyer to advocate in favour of libdvdcss? > > > > > > I suggest we hire a lawyer to tell us whether we may include > > > libdvdcss in Debian _or not_. This is roughly what we did for the > > > crypto-in-main issue. > > > > ok. where should this be brought forward? debian-devel? > > Surely not! Legal issues are for debian-legal.
Ok. What are the necessary steps to request that we hire a lawyer to resolve this? Can I do it on my own or is SPI the entity who should take action here? -- Robert Millan "[..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new work." -- J.R.R.T, Ainulindale (Silmarillion)