Olive <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Francesco Poli wrote: > > Firstoff, please note that *packages* are accepted in main or > > otherwise rejected. *Packages*, not *licenses*. > > OK, but packages are accepted according to their license; when I say > that Debian accept a license I mean that it accept packages under > this license. This seems clear, is it not?
It's not, because it gives the incorrect implication that *all* works under that license are acceptable for Debian by definition. We must consider *all* aspects that may restrict the freedom of a recipient of a work, of which the set of license terms is the most significant but not always the only factor. > I must confess you that the answer having me really angry might not > be your. I was particularly angry by reading a message like this: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2007/09/msg00119.html > > where he seems to say that a consensus of Debian legal might have > more value that the one expressed by the people officially entitled > to do so. There was no value judgement in that message. I'm sorry you found one where it wasn't written. Here it is again: Ben Finney wrote: > Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >There seem to be consensus that as long as there is no vote on > > >[CC by-sa 3.0], it's probably non-free, and best not put it in > > >main. Correct? > > Wrong. CC-BY-SA 3.0 is a free license and many works licensed this > > way are in main. > Note that the latter does not necessarily imply the former. Many > packages have been in main against the advice of a consensus view on > debian-legal that the package is non-free. The original poster *directly asked* about the consensus view. My response was a clarification about consensus of debian-legal, since that was the original question. > That really let think that debian-legal would be entitled to decide > what is free according to Debian. Not at all. This list is a Debian resource to allow discussion of DFSG-freeness of works, so that decisions can hopefully be informed by more than one opinion. It has no special power in that regard. -- \ "Program testing can be a very effective way to show the | `\ presence of bugs, but is hopelessly inadequate for showing | _o__) their absence." -- Edsger Dijkstra | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
