Re: Social Contract GR's Affect on sarge
On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 15:39:18 -0700, Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> said:
> On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 12:21:08PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> As far as I can see, the SC appleid to everything on the debian CD,
>> and to everything in main.
> There is a great deal of data on Debian CDs which has no license
In other words, illegal to distribute, no matter what the SC
says.
> whatsoever. Since, according to the new Social Contract, any
> arbitrary stream of bits which could be called a "component" of
> Debian is now a "work" which requires a license that meets the DFSG,
> we'd better get to work on copyrighting them all...
Actually, copyright law in the country the master repository
is situated trumps the SC. Or are you saying that unless the SC
prohibits it, you are all for breaking copyright law?
manoj
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Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/>
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