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Re: Criteria for inclusion in Debian other than DFSG?



On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 15:09:28 -0400, Adam Kessel <adam@bostoncoop.net> said: 

> But what if I find a sponsor, or I am a Debian Developer (which
> hopefully will happen soon[3]) willing to maintain the package
> myself? What does it mean for it to be "Debian's own decision"
> whether to distribute a particular package?

	We rely on the common sense of developers.  If a Debian
 developer has spent the time and effort to package software, make it
 policy compliant, and has ponied up to the bar to maintain that piece
 of software, then as long as we can legally distribute it, it has
 usually found its way in.

	manoj
-- 
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Manoj Srivastava   <srivasta@debian.org>  <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/>
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