Bug#833709: Please add the MIT/Expat license to common-licenses
Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> writes:
> It would be great if Policy described what the ftp-masters actually
> require and why, so that maintainers could provide everything that Debian
> needs to avoid legal trouble but no more. At the moment, Policy is rather
> more vague than the actual requirements to get software into Debian; there
> seems to be some (unwritten?) policy based on ftp-master consensus.
The prerequisite for this would be for ftp-master to publish what they
require and why. There have been a lot of past discussions about that.
My understanding is that this document does not presently exist except
insofar as the REJECT FAQ could be said to be that document.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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