Re: All GPL'ed programs have to go to non-free
On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 09:22:48PM -0400, Glenn Maynard wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 02:51:32AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>...
> > Please tell me where the document is I should have found that explains
> > Debian's position on this issue and then you have my publically stated
> > apology for starting this thread.
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2001/11/msg00009.html footnote [1]
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/05/msg00448.html
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2005/01/msg00059.html
Two of these are by you and the third one explicitely states that the
email only contains the personal opinion of the sender.
Where's the official statement of Debian on this issue?
www.debian.org tells me why mplayer can't be packaged - where does it
tell me what Debian calls "software"?
> And note that this isn't specific to the GPL, but common to all copyrighted
> software that requires that the license text itself accompany the work. This
> includes every free license I've seen in use, including the 2-clause BSD
> license and the X11 license.
>
> FYI, I found the above via google: site:lists.debian.org "license texts"
The only hit for
site:www.debian.org "license texts"
brings me to a debian-legal discussion where your new DPL suggests that
the GFDL should be considered DFSG-free and invariant sections of up to
5% should be considered DFSG-free.
It seems the opinions in Debian about the GFDL have changed during the
last four years...
> Glenn Maynard
cu
Adrian
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