Re: "remove this package from another developer" (was: Bug#251983: Please remove libcwd from main; it is licensed under the QPL, which is non-free.)
On Sat, 10 Jul 2004, Andreas Barth wrote:
> * Brian M. Carlson (sandals@crustytoothpaste.ath.cx) [040709 23:40]:
> > debian-legal has adjudged the QPL non-free, and the maintainer refuses
> > to move this package to non-free; therefore, I am requesting its
> > removal in an effort to lower the number of RC bugs. See the -legal
> > discussion [0].
>
> Sorry, but this is _not_ the way to go. You can't just request to
> remove the packages of some other maintainer from the archive, just
Yes, you can. Whether the package should be removed or not, that's for the
ftp-masters to decide. That such kinds of bug reports could be done in a
nicer way, well, that's probably true, but still...
As far as licenses go, if the consensus in debian-legal is that something is
non-free, you lose.
OTOH, if there is no consensus there, or if anything changed (or is about to
change and you can provide some backing up for that affirmation), then you
should act immediately and mail the bug report with that information, maybe
even closing it.
Note that I am in no way talking about the libcwd problem, but rather about
the general issue.
--
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where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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