Re: Bug#244190: Please remove the non-free portions from mesademos
* Florian Weimer (fw@deneb.enyo.de) [040712 22:55]:
> * Andreas Barth:
>
> > * 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.
> #244190 is about an image that probably is a copyright violation (no, not
> the usual stuff, merely a surrogate 8-). It's not a main vs. non-free
> issue at all, so David's criticism isn't entirely unjustified.
My critics were not that raising attention was unjustified or even
entirely unjustified - but just that the way was not very, uhm,
helpful in my opinion. And of course, if one goes the hard way, one
should try to present all the facts in his messages, and not tell it's
a DFSG-issue of a license when something else is behind.
Cheers,
Andi
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