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. 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. OTOH, if there is no consensus there, or if anything changed (or is about to change and you can provide some backing up for that affirmation), then you should act immediately and mail the bug report with that information, maybe even closing it. Note that I am in no way talking about the libcwd problem, but rather about the general issue. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh
