Re: Bug#244190: Please remove the non-free portions from mesademos
* D. Starner (shalesller@writeme.com) [040710 22:25]:
> > I don't consider the tone in this message [...] as appropriate.
> [...]
> > The ftp-masters normally remove
> > packages only if the maintainer at least agrees on it.
> For four months, Debian has known of blatant copyright infringement
> in its archives. We have done nothing. How is that going to look in
> court?
Please re-read this message:
| debian-legal has adjudged the QPL non-free, and the maintainer refuses
| to move this package to non-free; therefore, I am requesting its
| removal in an effort to lower the number of RC bugs. See the -legal
| discussion [0].
Where does it tell that we do copyright infringments? So, please don't
exaggerate.
> This is not some argument whether a license is free or non-free, or
> whether we offended a mostly friendly upstream's license in some
> minor way.
Well, than perhaps the requester should provide this information, and
not speaking about a particular license being non-free (and in
reality, there is still ongoing discussion).
Cheers,
Andi
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