Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

2009-03-22 Thread Noah Slater
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 12:55:58PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > I think part of the problem right now is that people aren't sure what to > expect and are feeling like this review is somewhat unpredictable. This > is what I'm hoping to be able to help with by revising the Policy section. > If we ca

Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

2009-03-22 Thread Noah Slater
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 12:29:37PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Noah Slater writes: > > > Having said that, I am thinking that fully documenting the license of > > each file provides a handy way to ensure that developers are thoroughly > > checking the package for licensing problems. > > Did you m

Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

2009-03-22 Thread Russ Allbery
Joerg Jaspert writes: > Also, keep in mind what Mark wrote elsewhere. He asked the DPL to let > SPI get us some lawyers input on the question. Thats probably the best > course. Yes. I'm wholeheartedly in favor of this, and I think we should hold any resolution of this discussion for the results

Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

2009-03-22 Thread Russ Allbery
Noah Slater writes: > Having said that, I am thinking that fully documenting the license of > each file provides a handy way to ensure that developers are thoroughly > checking the package for licensing problems. Did you mean "copyright" here? No one is disputing the need to document the licens

debian-policy 3.8.1.0 MIGRATED to testing

2009-03-22 Thread Debian testing watch
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Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

2009-03-22 Thread Noah Slater
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 08:42:12PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Could you explain to me how the lack of those two things is a possible > DFSG problem? I assume that this is based on the first, but that seems > like quite a stretch to me. The same assurance, for what good there is in > it, could b

Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

2009-03-22 Thread Noah Slater
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 08:13:54PM +1300, Andrew McMillan wrote: > On Sun, 2009-03-22 at 03:34 +, Noah Slater wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 08:07:23PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > > NEW rejections are even stronger than an RC bug. Apart from questions of > > > whether that's useful docu

Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

2009-03-22 Thread Joerg Jaspert
First, let me apologize for my last mail in this thread, it had been a little too rude/harsh/direct. My fault, sorry. (We all should calm down, flaming won't help) On 11696 March 1977, Russ Allbery wrote: > Joerg Jaspert writes: >> We require, and have seen nothing to convince us otherwise, that

Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

2009-03-22 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Sun, 2009-03-22 at 03:34 +, Noah Slater wrote: > On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 08:07:23PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > NEW rejections are even stronger than an RC bug. Apart from questions of > > whether that's useful documentation for users, I have a hard time seeing > > either of your reasons