On 2025-10-05 at 10:00, Ansgar 🙀 wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, 2025-10-05 at 12:29 +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > >> Andreas wrote: >> >>> If a copyright holder claims a package infringes their rights >> >> I'd like to believe that a mere "claim" should not be enough for us >> to remove something in 48h or whatever short period of time. There >> must be something of substance. Otherwise we would be at the mercy >> of copyright trolls like SCO. > > Just ask yourself if software vendors other than Debian can do so. > > Can Microsoft release new versions of Windows, Office, Exchange, > Sharepoint within 48 hours of receiving a claim that something > infringes on someones rights? Including internal communication, > identification of the relevant subsystem, implementing and testing > required changes to other subsystems, rebuilding installation > images, substituting retail packages, ... They probably can't release a new version within that time-frame, no - but they *might* very well be able to pull *existing* versions from being available for download, within that time-frame. At which point they (under what I think I gather the mindset and argument involved to be) would have removed the claimed-as-infringing material from distribution, and would then have a more flexible time window for getting the work done to release a new version that might not hit the same issue. (Though, of course, in the case of malicious false claims, nothing would ever be good enough to meet that standard.) -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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