I have reviewed the (very well-written -- kudos to Carey Evans) copyright file in question. On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 07:31:21PM +0100, Andrew Saunders wrote: > On Thu, 13 May 2004 10:35:27 -0400 (EDT) > Richard A Nelson <cowboy@debian.org> wrote: [...] > > Sigh... did you not notice from which pool this came ? Sigh. "Non-free" means "does not satisfy the DFSG, but is freely distributable", not "all bets are off". > Even Non-Free packages must as a minimum be legally distributable by > the Project to qualify for inclusion in the archive. I'm surprised you > could be a DD and yet not know this. After witnessing the nuclear conflagration of clueless rhetoric about the meaning of the Social Contract, I am sadly not surprised at all. > > I'm all for constructive criticism; something I can take to upstream > > - and he has done some work to improve the situation based upon > > earlier conversations. However, knee-jerk responces (like this) will > > be simply routed to /dev/null. > > If you disagree with my analysis of the situation, how about providing > a coherent rebuttal as opposed to just dismissing my concerns out of > hand? Because that would require the package maintainer to think about his packages's content and licensing instead of protecting Debian's honor from "non-free flaming bigots". I suggest you save your heroic defenses of useful software that "offends the puritans" for situations where the facts are on your side. Otherwise you merely reinforce the reputation certain self-described "pragmatists" on the non-free issue are developing for carelessness and ignorance. > > If you wish to be helpful, I'll be happy to blast the copyright info > > to debian-legal for further critique. If you wish to just blather, > > consider this a *plonk*. Sadly, the blather in this instance seems to be coming from the package maintainer. Rick, I think you owe Andrew an apology. -- G. Branden Robinson | Intellectual property is neither Debian GNU/Linux | intellectual nor property. branden@debian.org | Discuss. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Linda Richman
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