Re: request for Technical Committee ruling on Bug #109436
- To: debian-ctte@lists.debian.org
- Cc: Branden Robinson <branden@deadbeast.net>
- Subject: Re: request for Technical Committee ruling on Bug #109436
- From: Raul Miller <moth@debian.org>
- Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 09:15:10 -0400
- Message-id: <[🔎] 998572288.26b29eca@debian.org>
- In-reply-to: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1010823084328.9227F-100000@dwarf>; from dwarf@polaris.net on Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 08:45:56AM -0400
- References: <20010822145755.B28190@deadbeast.net> <Pine.LNX.3.96.1010823084328.9227F-100000@dwarf>
On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 08:45:56AM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> I'm not sure I agree with Raul, that this should not be looked at by the
> ctte, but I do have an alternate solution.
>
> Don't change the original, change the Debian version and propogate the
> change in the diff. When the current CVS is actually released, then your
> "patch" will have been "accepted upstream" and life goes on.
This doesn't deal with the problem introduced where we're distributing
a file but we don't have the rights specified in the DFSG.
In the general case, we might be violating copyright.
Thanks,
--
Raul
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