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Bug#181493: SUN RPC code is DFSG-free



On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 05:17:28PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 03:15:05PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > You ground your argument on "second hand reports of clarifications" in
> > the first quoted paragraph, but then expect debian-legal to furnish
> > first-hand clarifications?
> 
> Yes. If you're too lazy to be bothered doing that, don't expect anyone
> else -- either the release manager nor the glibc maintainers -- to care
> about your ravings.
> 
> > The burden of proof is on those
> > who claim it's been "clarified" to come up with evidence of such.
> 
> No, the burden of proof is on those who advocate a change, and it's not
> been met.

Ah, so in general, when people find a flagrant DFSG violation in main,
the best thing they can do is just leave it alone.  Otherwise, it's a
"change", and past inclusion is always sufficient present for future
retention.

Got it.

-- 
G. Branden Robinson                |    If a man ate a pound of pasta and a
Debian GNU/Linux                   |    pound of antipasto, would they
branden@debian.org                 |    cancel out, leaving him still
http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |    hungry?              -- Scott Adams

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