Re: Bug#74715: ITP: Star Office -- Open Source Office Suite
On Sat, 14 Oct 2000 11:45:11 +0000 (GMT), Ben Armstrong
<synrg@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca> wrote:
>Asking permission is the wrong way to do this, though. Just notify them
>that you are packaging it. That is polite enough.
The New Maintainer's Guide specifically states
"you should contact program's author(s) to check if they agree with
packaging it."
For me, checking if the upstream author agrees is like asking for
permission.
Greetings
Marc
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