Bug#555168: Unclear license situation for (e)glibc locales provided by you
Bearjadat, geassemánu 29. b. 2012 07.03.15 Christian PERRIER čálii:
> I add to the CC list another mail address I know about Boerre
> Gaup. Also CC'ing Petter Reinholdtsen, ou Debian Wizard for everything
> related to Norway, in case he would have alternate ways to reach Boerre.
>
> Quoting Helge Kreutzmann (debian@helgefjell.de):
> > Hello,
> > you are listed as contact person/author of the following locale:
> >
> > se_NO
> >
> > This locale comes with a statement
> >
> > % Distribution and use is free, also
> > % for commercial purposes.
> >
> > Thus it does not allow modification; it is unclear, however, if this
> > statement was meant as a license.
> >
> > As discussed in
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=555168 this
> > locale could strictly speaking not be part of Debian which would be a
> > great loss. (Currently it is allowed pending investigation).
> >
> > To properly resolve this, I would like to ask you the following
> > question:
> >
> > Would you be willing to relicense this locale to a proper license,
> > e.g. (L)GPL v2 or higher or another free software license of your choice?
> >
(L)GPL v2 sounds quite all right by me.
> > If you have any questions regarding this issue, do not hesitate to
> > contact me (via the reply-to address set).
> >
> > Thanks for helping to resolve this!
> >
> > Helge
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