discuss: Debian-free licenses was Re: modifiability of docs: final decision
Subject:
Re: Debian-free licenses was Re: modifiability of docs: final decision
From:
Rick Moen ####@####.####
Date:
10 Mar 2005 02:43:41 -0000
Message-Id: <20050310024340.GD27314@linuxmafia.com>
Quoting Rahul Sundaram ####@####.####
> I believe Rick explained his rationale.
Just for any who are interested, here is my earlier analysis on who
and what speaks definitively on DSFG-freeness, and on related matters of
Debian governance.
http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:7165 (and thread that followed)
I welcome corrections. (My post mused that there's probably an index of
how General Resolutions were voted: There is, indeed. It's at
http://www.debian.org/vote/ . When I found that, I linked it from my
knowledgebase's Debian category, http://linuxmafia.com/kb/Debian/ .)
At the time, Doug Jensen said this
(http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:msn:7168:200404:jfbinmgikbmahbboeiln):
The maintainer doesn't get to decide, in the sense that they can make
up their 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.
Which accords with what I said. (E.g.,
http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:msn:7167:200404:jfbinmgikbmahbboeiln)
