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Re: licence for Truecrypt

Francesco Poli schrieb:

On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 14:57:30 +0200 Michael Reichenbach wrote:


Hi!
The license has been already discussed on the malinglist with opinions 'DFSG-compatible' and 'not DFSG-compatible'.
I added it to the wiki. http://wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses?action=show#head-4aa606633f3372dc9d5087b69c2f40d06bcd3c2d 

I think you should link to more recent discussions:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2008/01/msg00122.html
(and the thread that followed)
http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2008/03/msg00130.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2008/04/msg00032.html


How to get a final / official verdict about it?


I already expressed my personal opinion in
http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2008/04/msg00032.html
but that is, well, my own personal opinion, as said...
It's true that nobody else added comments to the new License version
2.4, but what I expressed is still my own personal opinion, and nothing
else.

Please remember my usual disclaimers: IANAL, TINLA, IANADD, TINASOTODP.

There's no way, AFAIK, to *compel* debian-legal to provide a final /
official verdict: unless a consensus is formed, there cannot be a
conclusive statement.
Moreover, no statement can be final (because some previously unnoticed
issue may always be discovered later), or official (since debian-legal
is not the decision-making body for Debian, but a sort of advisory
board, instead).



I do not want to compel someone to do anything. :)
FranklinPiat removed everything from the wiki. (see changelog) Forwarded the message also to him. 

But I think there should be at least *any* status information on this page.
It was already added to the 'unclear' section with 'unclear' status. What was wrong with? Now completely deleting was an action I really can not understand. 

-mr
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