Bug#774932: Bug#774931: Trying to find the licenses for the alt.sysadmin.recovery man page collection
On 19/01/15 03:51, Axel Beckert wrote:
> Jonathan Wiltshire wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 04:06:01PM +0100, Axel Beckert wrote:
>>> asr-manpages unfortunately got removed from testing manually without
>>> explicit reason instead of just waiting for the autoremoval period.
>>> That happened despite there are obvious efforts to fix this issue --
>>> which definitely lowered my motiviation to do an NMU for this issue
>>> once the upstream authors have answered. :-(
>>
>> The maintainer indicated in #774932 that "it would be best to remove it".
>
> Gah, this anonymous submitter is annoying. His claim that this "is
> practically impossible" is yet to be proved as I'm trying to prove the
> opposite.
I am not anonymous. My name is Riley Baird. I am the maintainer of
pyelliptic. Is there any more information you would like to know about me?
> He rather should be constructive instead of kicking people's work in
> the ass. I'm quite pissed that anyone seems to ignore that I'm trying
> to fix this issue to avoid the same fate as with funny-manpages (where
> the copyright questions are indeed difficult to fix as the authors
> first have to be figured out).
You might not have seen this, but I have tried contacting many of the
authors of the funny-manpages, and not a single one responded - except
RMS, who refused to relicense his manpages. I even tried making a phone
call to someone after looking up their name in the white pages.
The reason that I filed the RM request was that the RC bug on
funny-manpages was left open for several hundred days, with no action.
Since it seemed that nobody cared about this issue with funny-manpages,
I saw no reason to assume that anyone would care about it with asr-manpages.
Now that you are making an effort to fix it, that's great. I *want*
asr-manpages to be in Debian. I just don't think that you are likely to
get permission from all, or even most, of the authors, and especially
not in time for the jessie release.
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