On Wed, 01 Mar 2006, Ross Bencina wrote: > Can you please identify yourself as someone who has final authority > for giving this advice. As MJ Ray has already pointed out, I'm just acting in an advisory capacity here, explaining to you what ftp-master and/or the maintainer are likely to decide based on the input of debian-legal.[1] I don't have the authority to make a final decision (nor indeed does ftp-master or the maintainer) as we can all be overriden by a GR of the developers. > >On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Ross Bencina wrote: > >>[someone said] > >>>Or, if the "request" clause is not removed from the license, I would > >>>like to see it clarified as follows: > >>> > >>> Any person wishing to distribute modifications to the Software is > >>> requested BUT NOT REQUIRED to send the modifications to the original > >>> developer so that they can be incorporated into the canonical version. > >> > >>If we changed it to this would debian-legal be happy? > > > >That would be fine; it's not absolutely essential so long as it's > >clear that it's a non-binding request, and that you interpret it as > >a non-binding request. > > Well, if it isn't essential I'm not going to go to the trouble of > changing it. The PortAudio authors made it clear that this is a > non-binding request a few years ago. It would be ideal if it was included in some text distributed in the package just so we don't have to reference it; alternatively, a GPG signed mail sent to the maintainer from someone at PortAudio telling us[2] that this is the case would be even better. [Most web pages are surprisingly mutable and transient, unfortunatly.] Don Armstrong 1: Whether they decide to take my advice or write me off as a raving lunatic is up to them, of course. 2: If it's already the case that they've done so, just respond to the bug with the text; its inclusion would clear up any confusion that I can see. -- Physics is like sex. Sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it. -- Richard Feynman http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu
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