Re: Intent to mass-file bugs: FDL/incorrect copyright files
On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 05:21:37PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> writes:
> > On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 02:57:32PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> > > If you did this deliberately, and you described the licenses in the
> > > debian/copyright file, then they certainly would see it and block
> > > inclusion.
> >
> > Point of information: they generally would not notice for an *existing*
> > package until their attention was drawn to it in some way.
>
> Yes, this is correct; I may have misread the above-quoted paragraph by
> Brian Nelson.
>
> Regardless, the fact that one could perpetrate a fraud and get away
> with it for a while does not mean that a person should be able to get
> away with it forever, or that the ftp-masters don't have the
> legitimate power to fix it once it comes to light.
Quite so - I certainly don't disagree there.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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