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Re: Bug#154281: libdvdcss ITP



[ this thread comes from libdvdcss ITP #154281 ]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 01:21:53PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 02:01:46PM +0000, Robert Millan wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 11:31:08AM +0200, Sam Hocevar wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jul 30, 2003, Robert Millan wrote:
> > > > As for the legal advice, what do you mean? Do you suggest that we
> > > > hire a lawyer to advocate in favour of libdvdcss?
> > > 
> > >    I suggest we hire a lawyer to tell us whether we may include
> > > libdvdcss in Debian _or not_. This is roughly what we did for the
> > > crypto-in-main issue.
> > 
> > ok. where should this be brought forward? debian-devel?
> 
> Surely not! Legal issues are for debian-legal.

Ok. What are the necessary steps to request that we hire a lawyer to
resolve this? Can I do it on my own or is SPI the entity who should take
action here?

-- 
Robert Millan

"[..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the
thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he
gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new work."

 -- J.R.R.T, Ainulindale (Silmarillion)



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