On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 08:32:08PM -0400, David B Harris wrote: > On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 16:54:53 -0500 > Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> wrote: > > If "make or" were stricken, and perhaps some clarification added to > > ensure that secure transport channels between distributor and > > distributee were not a problem, this particular problem might go away. > > I disagree, the wording is far too vague, even with that modification. > It opens distributors up to lawsuits that may very well be lost if they > do something like, say, distribute it in an archive format which has a > new type of (very effective) compression which may be publically > documented but isn't actually implemented anywhere other than the > distributor's own software. Okay. I don't yet have a strong feel for how easy it is to fix; I just know it's a problem for DFSG-compliance. -- G. Branden Robinson | A committee is a life form with six Debian GNU/Linux | or more legs and no brain. branden@debian.org | -- Robert Heinlein http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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