Re: DRAFT: debian-legal summary of the QPL
luther@debian.org wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I just heard about this tentative to make the QPL non-free, and i am a bit
> worried that this will come to be decided without me being aware of it,
> since i do maintain a package which is partly under the QPL, the ocaml
> package. And i wonder if it will come to happen that you will all silently
We don't do ANYTHING silently. Please read debian-legal.
> decide that the QPL is non-free days before the sarge release, and leave
> me no other choice than have the package removed from main.
>
> I feel that elemental courtesy would have been to inform all maintainers
> of pure QPLed packages of this discussions,
We do not currently have a list of such packages, and it's an enormous pain
to make one. Otherwise, that would be a great idea!
> and maybe keep them informed
> of the likely outcome and timeframe for taking action. But then, it seems
> the debian project has no problem threating most of his developers as
> dirt.
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