Bug#332782: Please explain the etch-ignore tag
On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 11:42:15PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> > Hmm... as for names and e-mail addreses I think we need to dig that
> > information first. Years would be 1999-2007, they seem to have been first
> > written for slink (http://www.es.debian.org/releases/slink/#release-notes).
> > The DDP CVS only has the Release Notes since woody (january 2003),
> > previously they Release Notes resided in the boot-floppies' CVS.
> First of all, I think whoever contributed to the "DEBIAN" release-note
> was the one who implicitly agreed basic debian purpose and releasing
> R-N is part of the objective we all agreed.
This is true, but Debian is a big organization with room for many different
opinions about which licenses are "good", and we should be able to state
clearly to people who want to reuse content from our release notes, what the
license is that they're allowed to do so under.
> I know it is week argument but, at the same time, what is the likely
> risk of someone suing Debian for the releasing R-N as clarified GPL2
> doc.
Not very; but I don't think that removes our responsibility to set a good
example when it comes to treating the intellectual property of others with
respect, even when those "others" are part of Debian and we think we have a
good idea of what theri views are.
> > - Osamu Asoki
> "Osamu Aoki", I think. I do not remember what I did.
> I understand spelling name correctly is tough :-)
Wow, sorry for not catching this in the list of misspellings, I do know your
name... :)
Cheers,
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