License discussions in Debian (was: discussion with the FSF: GPLv3, GFDL, Nexenta)

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> wrote:

> See, given that as an ftpmaster I'm one of the folks who actually
> implements the policy on what's accepted into main or not, it's not my
> loss at all.

I think that Debian would very much benefit if there was a place (call
it debian-legal@l.d.o or whatever) where our policy with regard to
individual software's licenes could be discussed with the input of those
who actually set this policy: the ftpmasters.

If debian-legal isn't the place for you (and AFAIK none of the other
ftpmasters is a regular), maybe we need a new start and a different
format.  But it's a pity that there's no way to get the ftpmasters'
opinion except by trying, and no regular way at all, it seems, to get
the reasons for their decisions.

Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)