On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 10:21:31AM -0500, Jeremy Hankins wrote: > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Yeah, but as i see it, there is no need for such a licence change, and > > the upstream author being an intelligent person, will probably > > immediately see it, and respond to me : but there is no need for such > > a change. And then, were do i stand ? I was expecting help from > > debian-legal to know what to respond to him, but look at what i get. > > I understand that you asked for help providing a reason for a license > change. But d-l isn't the best place to go for that help in this case; > the FSF is. They have people who answer questions about GPL > compatibility, and I'm sure they can explain their reasoning much more > authoritatively than we can. They're the experts on GPL compatibility, > not us. If you send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and politely explain the > situation I'm sure they'd be willing to help you.
Yeah, sure. but the ftp-master mostly act on debian-legal's advice, so this is the natural place for this, especially when i get a bug report like this one. Anyway, i am in discussion with upstream about this now. Friendly, Sven Luther