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Re: discussion with the FSF: GPLv3, GFDL, Nexenta



debian-devel re-added.

On Sat, Jun 02, 2007 at 03:40:36PM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Jun 2007 21:50:15 +1000 Anthony Towns wrote:
> > On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 10:54:36AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote:
> > > and to the best of my knowledge, works licensed solely under the
> > > CDDL have never been accepted in main.[1]
> > star | 1.5a57-1 | oldstable | source, alpha, arm, [...]
> > star | 1.5a67-1 | stable | source, alpha, amd64, [...]
> > http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/s/star/star_1.5a57-1/star.copyright
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=350624
> Quoting from the bug log, Anthony Towns wrote:
> | The CDDL mightn't be the best license in the world, and isn't GPL
> | compatible, but it's still DFSG-free. Closing this bug with this
> | message.
> I do *not* agree that the CDDL meets the DFSG, especially when a choice
> of venue is in place.

That a poster to debian-legal doesn't think a license meets the DFSG
isn't particularly useful information, and is even less so when that
poster isn't a DD, a maintainer or someone in the n-m queue.

Cheers,
aj

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