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Re: Intent to mass-file bugs: FDL/incorrect copyright files



Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb@becket.net> writes:

> Brian Nelson <pyro@debian.org> writes:
>
>> I'm saying debian-legal is irrelevant to this bug mass filing.  Brian
>> proposed to submit these bugs on the grounds that there is a consensus
>> in debian-legal that the DFSG is non-free.  I say that is not for
>> debian-legal to decide.
>
> Good grief; it's reasonable to file a bug merely because I in my own
> judgment think a package has a bug, and this applies to license bugs
> as much as technical bugs.

These are bugs that may be prompted closed by a maintainer, because they
are not clearly bugs at all.  That is exactly the sort of mass filing
that should *not* happen.

> I have already said that I think Brian should wait on filing GFDL bugs
> until after the release of sarge, because it is only then that the
> Social Contract changes swing into effect.

I disagree.  It is not clear to me these would suddenly become bugs
after sarge's release.

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For every sprinkle I find, I shall kill you!



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