On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 09:41:47AM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: > On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 17:46:21 -0800 Steve Langasek wrote: > > > Well, I'm still not happy about the "don't use the PHP name" clause, > > but we seem to be ignoring that clause everywhere else at the moment. > > So for packages that have the PHP Group as their upstream, I think > > it's reasonable to close the bugs *if* the packages include the new > > license text in debian/copyright; otherwise downgrade the bug to a > > "please update the license text" bug. > :-? > This sounds like "Since we have ignored this issue in the past, we must > go on forever ignoring it, even though it *is* a DFSG-freeness issue" No, it's "throwing these packages out of Debian as a first step in addressing the license issue (one that not everyone agrees makes the license non-free) would be stupid, and doing so selectively or inconsistently based on how important to us the package is would be even moreso." -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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