Re: Intent to mass-file bugs: FDL/incorrect copyright files
Brian Nelson <pyro@debian.org> writes:
> I'm saying debian-legal is irrelevant to this bug mass filing. Brian
> proposed to submit these bugs on the grounds that there is a consensus
> in debian-legal that the DFSG is non-free. I say that is not for
> debian-legal to decide.
Good grief; it's reasonable to file a bug merely because I in my own
judgment think a package has a bug, and this applies to license bugs
as much as technical bugs.
I have already said that I think Brian should wait on filing GFDL bugs
until after the release of sarge, because it is only then that the
Social Contract changes swing into effect.
> I'm not insisting on that. In fact, in the general case, I believe
> individual maintainers are the ones who should be making these
> judgments. You may disagree with the maintainer, and the maintainer may
> choose to weigh the advice of debian-legal in making his or her
> judgment. However, I fail to see on what grounds other than the through
> decision by the CTTE, the leader, or a GR, that a maintainer may be
> overruled.
The ftp-masters, actually, have jurisdiction about what goes into the
archive, not individual maintainers. (And they have this authority as
delegates of the Project Leader.)
Thomas
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