Hi Manoj! On 2004-04-27 18:02 -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > The former is fine, this merely reinstates the former release > policy. But wilfully distributing software that violates the license > it is shipped under is illegal; and we no longer have a right to > distribute it. > > It is one thing to unknowingly violate a license (though it > probably does nor reduce the liability); delibratly distributing > copyrighted software after you knew you did not have the right to > distribute it is another. Then I suggest to immediately switch off all Debian FTP mirrors, since we do ship these packages at the moment, and we _know_ that they violate the GPL. > Also, please do not use this GR to put forth a release policy > that is far more lax than what we had before. See above in the thread, I noticed my fault and revoked the proposal anyway. > > This proposal does not mean that I don't care about GPL/SC > > violations, it is essentially important that we fix them, but in my > > opinion legal impacts and releasing are quite orthogonal to each > > other. > > As long it is not you facing the fines/jail time I don't understand the reason for this comment. If you are really afraid of being sued and fined/jailed, then go and make sure we don't distribute any package any more *now*. (Why this whole story reminds me of a three-letter company in Utah, who obviously did similar things?) Have a nice day! Martin -- Martin Pitt Debian GNU/Linux Developer martin@piware.de mpitt@debian.org http://www.piware.de http://www.debian.org
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