discuss: SCO copyright violations on LDP
Subject:
Re: SCO copyright violations on LDP
From:
Colin Watson ####@####.####
Date:
8 Aug 2003 00:55:47 -0000
Message-Id: <20030808005546.GA21959@riva.ucam.org>
On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 05:56:57PM -0700, David Lawyer wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 01:15:08AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > If the Debian HOWTO packages suddenly carry the requirement that
> > everybody who installs a web server that happens to export
> > /usr/share/doc/HOWTO to the world must make sure to have the newest
> > versions of the packages installed (and perhaps even more than that,
> > since now and then I don't have time to update the packages for a few
> > months, and I never got a favourable response to my request to update
> > the packages in stable), then I will regretfully have to ask for the
> > packages to be removed from the distribution immediately.
>
> The requirement would need to be flexible. It might say for example,
> that sites need to make a good faith effort to keep them up-to-date.
> For distributions, this would mean using the latest package. It
> might also state that the penalty for failing to do so would be that
> they would need to either update the site (or become a mirror site) or
> just remove all LDP docs from their site. Of course, archives of stale
> documentation would be encouraged, provided it's labeled as such.
I still very much doubt that I'll be able to keep packages with any such
requirements in Debian, sorry. If it were a request, then fine.
> Now this might present a problem for the absurd policy of not including
> the latest docs in stable. You should try again to fix this.
Probably, but I've never had much luck loosening the strict bonds on
stable.
Cheers,
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Colin Watson ####@####.####
