On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 09:54:04AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sat, 10 Jul 2004, Andreas Barth wrote: > > * Brian M. Carlson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040709 23:40]: > > > debian-legal has adjudged the QPL non-free, and the maintainer refuses > > > to move this package to non-free; therefore, I am requesting its > > > removal in an effort to lower the number of RC bugs. See the -legal > > > discussion [0]. > > > > Sorry, but this is _not_ the way to go. You can't just request to > > remove the packages of some other maintainer from the archive, just > > Yes, you can. Whether the package should be removed or not, that's for the > ftp-masters to decide.
They'll generally punt it to the QA team. > That such kinds of bug reports could be done in a nicer way, well, > that's probably true, but still... > > As far as licenses go, if the consensus in debian-legal is that something is > non-free, you lose. debian-legal is an undelegated advisory body. Ultimately, the final decision lies with the archive maintainers. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
