Re: Non-free package documentation requirement
Hi,
>>"Alex" == <aqy6633@acf5.nyu.edu> writes:
>> I disagree. A package's placement in non-free should be a last
>> resort. Making sorting out the copyright a requirement for
>> inclusion in non-free will encourage efforts to fix the problem.
Alex> ... and be the way to ban the packages from being included into
Alex> the distribution available for the users.
The world is coming to an end. I agree with Alex here. I
maintain non-free/games/angband; and there is a morass of authors
through whose hands angband has passed, with almost everyone putting
a different set of copyright statements on their work, beofre passing
the torch.
Tracking down all the people involved in that is way too much
work for me; I would just continue to maintain the package for
myself, if the "track down and implore author" policy were made
madatory.
A free software fanatic would probably say that is a good
thing. Mayhap a more enrgetic maintianer for angband would arrive on
the scene.
manoj
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