On Tue, 6 Jul 2010 19:44:33 +0200 Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: [...] > So what should I do about this whole issue? Summarize all the problems that > we've pointed out and write to this list and the authors to discuss the > whole issue together? Ask to them and post here about their explanations, > to know if they would be acceptable for Debian? ...?
Since nobody else has replied so far, I'll express my own personal opinion. I think that probably the safest course of action is summarizing the issues to upstream copyright holders, without directly involving them in debian-legal discussions. I see it as a courtesy to upstream: discussions on this list may sometimes become lengthy and not all upstream have much time to spend on what, in some cases, may look like splitting hairs on legal details... Moreover, people on this list cannot individually speak on behalf of the Debian Project (a number of participants, including me!, are not even Debian Developers or Debian Maintainers): as a consequence, any statement should be given time to be reviewed by other debian-legal participants, before it's presented to upstream (and should not be presented as the official Debian Project position, anyway). Of course, if you need further help, you can always come back to the list and ask for opinions... -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/progs/scripts/pdebuild-hooks.html Need some pdebuild hook scripts? ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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