discuss: Migration process of the existing documents to Wiki
Subject:
Re: [discuss] Migration process of the existing documents to Wiki
From:
Frank Lichtenheld ####@####.####
Date:
26 Jul 2008 02:58:39 +0100
Message-Id: <20080726015831.GE11882@mail-vs.djpig.de>
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 03:19:45PM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Frank Lichtenheld ####@####.####
> > OTOH, there is a canonical body in Debian for making final decisions
> > on license matters and that is the FTP team.
>
> Very astutely stated, yes. In a functional sense, the ftp-masters team
> are among the very few people likely to, and capable of, overruling the
> judgement of a Debian package maintainer who they believe to have erred.
>
> Likewise, in theory, a passed general resolution, a ruling of the
> Technical Committee, an intervention of the Debian Project Leader or
> his/her deputies could overrule a package maintainer's judgement -- but
> in practice this doesn't seem to happen. (That recounting is from
> memory, so I might have missed someone.)
I think the only general license issue ever decided by General Resolution was
the GFDL (with the options being "non-free", "free unless invariant sections",
and "free" IIRC).
Gruesse,
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Frank Lichtenheld ####@####.####
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