Re: RFC - Changing current policy of debian.net entries
On 06/25/2012 05:39 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 05:01:11PM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote:
>> mentors is a special case here as it might distribute non-distributable
>> stuff when people upload buggy packages. So there is no real way to run
>> this as official Debian service imho.
>
> Let's avoid spreading this myth. The above is not true or, better, it's
> not *necessarily* true. As I've reported about in the past, I'm working
> with current maintainers of mentors.d.n and the lawyers we've access to,
> to fix this. It's still work in progress, but it looks like that with
> appropriate policies / terms of use documents, we *might* be able to
> host the mentors service on Debian hardware without endangering the
> organizations that legally owns or run it.
So until these policies and whatever else is needed is in place there is
no way to run this as an official service.
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