"Ross Bencina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi Don > > Can you please identify yourself as someone who has final authority for > giving this advice.
I will be very surprised if Don satisfies that request. No debian decision is final: we reserve the right to find or admit bugs in the future, whether coding, usage or licensing. The most positive decision possible is: good enough as far as we know. If portaudio is in main and has no open or disputed bugs at http://bugs.debian.org/src:portaudio or elsewhere, it's OK now. For information, the decision-makers I can think of are: 1. the package maintainer for portaudio; 2. the ftpmasters listed on http://ftp-master.debian.org/ who are supposed to listen to debian-legal, but who knows? My view is that if you can't get consensus from at least the liberal members of this list, you've some sort of problem; 3. the debian developers by way of general resolutions to override ftpmaster decisions, described on http://vote.debian.org/ - I don't remember whether this has ever been used. > Well, if it isn't essential I'm not going to go to the trouble of changing > it. The PortAudio authors made it clear that this is a non-binding request a > few years ago. Perhaps if we put up a web page to that effect it would > sufficient to avoid this problem from arising in the future? That sounds like a good idea to me. Reduces risk of future people or other projects missing what we've been told. Hope that helps, -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only: see http://people.debian.org/~mjr/ Please follow http://www.uk.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
