On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 10:49:35AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 06:12:38PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 07:20:35PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > Anthony, this is bullshit. > > Sven, if the GPL prohibits us from distributing the code, we (which is > > to say ftpmaster) won't distribute it. There's no way of phrasing a GR > > to change that. > Well, i agree with you to a point, but as everyone intent to distribute those > sourceless GPLed firmwares even if they are non-distributable, i cannot accept > the above claim.
It doesn't really matter what you can accept or not; we have a very firm policy of not breaking the law by distributing copyrighted stuff in violation of their license. What we don't have is a policy of not distributing copyright stuff because Sven Luther thinks the license is being violated. I don't think it's worth further delaying this vote to include this position statement; as per [0] the minimum discussion period for Manoj's amendment as accepted by Frederik [1] ended 4th Oct 2006 19:53:58 UTC, which is about 11 hours ago; so we could get on with calling for a vote and have this over and done with in a little over a week if the proposers and seconders are willing. A position statement (and press release or similar) to get the ball rolling on encouraging driver/firmware developers to make original source code available under a DFSG license can happen at the same time, and be done even sooner. Cheers, aj [0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2006/10/msg00005.html [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2006/09/msg00567.html
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