On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 12:02:51PM +0100, Pim van Pelt wrote: > We will change the aiccu license on our next release. Let us say, for > arguments sake, that we release our next version on Wednesday January > 10th (providing we can get everything done before that time), and the > license will be an unaltered BSD license. Will aiccu be included in the > next stable Debian under main ? I don't believe so. The Release Managers could do so if they chose, but I expect it's much much too late to hit that time window. The transition from non-free to main will have to go through the FTP Masters anyway, and that's a non-trivial delay generally. However, I expect it'd be a likely candidate to get uploaded to backports.org once it is in the Debian archive. || I'd be interested also if the Debian Maintainer (CC'd via the relevant || bug report) feels this change would be sufficient to clarify the license || text to match the FAQ and various reported email exchanges and hence || allow aiccu to be included in the Debian distribution. > Anand, can you comment on that, taking into account our relicense above ? > Our goals are to have the latest aiccu in Debian (main), and definately > the current one in Debian removed, because it is broken and hurting our > users. And of course a version going into main would be a good impetus to kick the old version out of Etch, where it's doing more harm than good I understand. I've CC'd this to debian-release on the off-chance that it's in their sights regarding freeze-breakage, but frankly, I think we're three months too late on this one. -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Paul "TBBle" Hampson, B.Sc, LPI, MCSE On-hiatus Asian Studies student, ANU The Boss, Bubblesworth Pty Ltd (ABN: 51 095 284 361) Paul.Hampson@Pobox.Com Of course Pacman didn't influence us as kids. If it did, we'd be running around in darkened rooms, popping pills and listening to repetitive music. -- Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989 License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.1/au/ -----------------------------------------------------------
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