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Re: DEP-5 and public domain



On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 10:31 +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> writes:
> 
> > Le Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 02:05:42AM +1000, Ben Finney a écrit :
> > > To my eye, ‘License: NO’ has exactly the wrong connotation (“the
> > > recipient has no copyright license to this work”). The obvious
> > > reaction to that would be “okay, then we can't have it in Debian”.
> >
> > there would still be no ambiguity
> 
> I'm not arguing that there's ambiguity; I'm arguing that the keyword
> “no” is poorly chosen because it doesn't clearly connote what we want it
> to.
[...]

I think the bikeshed should be pink.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.

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