discuss: license issues
Subject:
Re: license issues
From:
doug jensen ####@####.####
Date:
29 Apr 2004 16:47:38 -0000
Message-Id: <20040429164700.GA10171@debian>
On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 12:49:06AM +0100, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> But it seems ridiculous that the maintainer gets to
> choose whether a particular license is free or not.
> Isnt that fundamental for debian. They should have a
> clear list of license which meet their criteria and
> which dont including relevant discussions so others
> can understand what their position is.
>
> Well guess I will have to stop bothering about Debian
> guidelines then
The maintainer doesn't get to decide, in the sense that they can make up
there own rules. They decide based on the Debian Free Software
Guidelines. The maintainers' decisions are also reviewed by other
maintainers, developers, and maintainers of the Debian archive.
The Debian Project puts a lot of effort into complying with the DFSG.
I hope you will reconsider your decision.
--
Doug Jensen
