* Peter Eisentraut (peter_e@gmx.net) wrote: > Am Montag, 30. August 2004 18:17 schrieb Stephen Frost: > > Which is a terrible practice and shouldn't be done in general. The > > .orig.tar.gz's really *should* be the same as the upstream tarball. > > Convince upstream to remove them. > > How would you convince the upstream to do that? I am affected by this issue, > but I don't see how I could get the upstream to listen to this kind of issue. > If you consider their interests, removing the RFC only diminishes the overall > value of their package (minimally, but still) while seemingly gaining nothing > at all in return. Point out the problem w/ including a non-free work in their overall work. I wouldn't be the least suprised if many of the upstreams aren't even aware of the rather restrictive license under which the RFCs are distributed. You could ask that they include a link to the RFC instead. You could mention that technically their package could end up in non-free and not be part of Debian because of it. Certainly, the least you could do is *ask* and *not* assume that they'd be against removing it. Stephen
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