Are they talking about redistribution, or access? Are they saying that we're not allowed to distribute the file ourselves, or are they saying that we're not allowed to download the file without agreeing to the terms?
We might need to agree to their terms of use to use their website. This makes sense -- having every Debian user access their website regularly via some background script would probably have annoying bandwidth costs for them. In the worst case, that could amount to a breach of the CFAA (in the US). There might also be reasons we can't redistribute the file ourselves, but those are less likely to be a problem -- I would agree that this file probably isn't copyrightable. Regards, Daniel J. Hakimi B.S. Philosophy, RPI 2012 B.S. Computer Science, RPI 2012 J.D. Cardozo Law 2015 On Sat, Feb 16, 2019 at 12:38 AM Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 7:00 PM Marco d'Itri wrote: > > > And they are arguing that people cannot download this file from > > a well-known location without first agreeing to some conditions. > > Do you have any info on the conditions? > > > Does everybody agree that this is bullshit and that we can distribute > > this data in Debian packages as much as we like? > > IANAL, but it doesn't seem copyrightable to me. I guess there could be > other laws affecting this though. > > > (Please Cc: me on replies.) > > Done. > > -- > bye, > pabs > > https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise > >
