AM report on Josh Huber
Final Report on Josh Huber to the NM committee
by Ralf Treinen <treinen@debian.org>
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Identity Check
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Josh provided a DSA key signed by Debian member Florian Lohoff:
pub 1024D/6B21489A created: 2000-01-20 expires: never trust: -/q
(1) Josh Huber <huber@mclx.com>
(2) Josh Huber <huber@alum.wpi.edu>
(3) Josh Huber <huberj@wpi.edu>
(4) Josh Huber <huber@nightshade.org>
Command> check
uid Josh Huber <huber@mclx.com>
sig! 6B21489A 2000-06-22 [self-signature]
sig! 75BE8097 2000-09-22 Florian Lohoff <flo@rfc822.org>
uid Josh Huber <huber@alum.wpi.edu>
sig! 6B21489A 2000-09-27 [self-signature]
uid Josh Huber <huberj@wpi.edu>
sig! 75BE8097 2000-09-22 Florian Lohoff <flo@rfc822.org>
sig! 6B21489A 2000-06-22 [self-signature]
uid Josh Huber <huber@nightshade.org>
sig! 75BE8097 2000-09-22 Florian Lohoff <flo@rfc822.org>
sig! 6B21489A 2000-06-26 [self-signature]
ID passed.
Philosophy and Procedures
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Josh agrees with the Social Contract and the DFSG, and he has explained
to me the Social Contract in his own words. We exchanged some emails
on questions concerning how to package software that does not comply
to the DFSG:
- how to identify (on the example of a particular non-free software)
- what can be done to package it (put it to non-free provided
redistribution is allowed at all)
- how this is technically achieved (Section field in the control file)
- what to do in case of doubt (contacting upstream, asking for help on
debian-legal).
Josh is working with Mission Critical Linux, a company that has put
some of their products under Open Source. He is in discussion with his
managment to move the Open Source products to GPL. Josh is well aware
of the our philosphy and how to put it into practice.
P&P passed.
Tasks and Skills
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Josh has packaged mcore-user, a utily to analize in-memory core dumps
(these are produced by mcore, an Open Source utility produced by his
employer, and that Josh is currently trying to move to GPL). Josh does
not have a sponsor. I had a look at the package and it seems OK to
me. I asked Josh some questions about his rules that he answered to my
satisfaction.
Besides packaging for debian the tools produced by his company, Josh
is interested in porting to powerpc and other "non mainstream
architectures".
T&S passed.
Evaluation and Check In
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I'm glad to recommend the acceptance of Josh Huber to Debian.
debian account: huber
debian mail forward to: huber@mclinux.com
Josh has sent me a statment that he abides by the DMUP.
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