On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Stephen Zedalis wrote: > On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Scott Ellis wrote: > > >Nope. You need to sign a licence to distribute it at all (including in > >non-free) and Debian isn't willing to sign the licence (and you can't just > >have "someone else" sign the licence and then upload it to non-free). > > Hmm... Isn't it for things like this that the Debian board was created? > And if the license is free, why don't they want to sign it? The current > bo distribution has several packages of software that is just as dubious > in licensing and of possibly less usefulness. merit-radius is just such > an example. As far as I know it is commercial-ware put out by Merit. > This is starting to smack of the same problems that the various BSD > flavors have, ie. a particular committee slowly making decisions "for the > public good" but seemingly out of touch with users needs.
Debian and SPI have made a deliberate decision to NOT sign any licence. Did you read the social contract and Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG)? Signing a license is against everything we stand for. -- Scott K. Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.gate.net/~storm/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
