Re: BGP

[Scott Ellis <storm@gate.net>]

On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Stephen Zedalis wrote:

> On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Scott Ellis wrote:
> 
> >Nope.  You need to sign a licence to distribute it at all (including in
> >non-free) and Debian isn't willing to sign the licence (and you can't just
> >have "someone else" sign the licence and then upload it to non-free).
> 
> Hmm... Isn't it for things like this that the Debian board was created?
> And if the license is free, why don't they want to sign it?  The current
> bo distribution has several packages of software that is just as dubious
> in licensing and of possibly less usefulness.  merit-radius is just such
> an example.  As far as I know it is commercial-ware put out by Merit.
> This is starting to smack of the same problems that the various BSD
> flavors have, ie. a particular committee slowly making decisions "for the
> public good" but seemingly out of touch with users needs.

Debian and SPI have made a deliberate decision to NOT sign any licence.
Did you read the social contract and Debian Free Software Guidelines
(DFSG)?  Signing a license is against everything we stand for.

-- 
Scott K. Ellis <storm@gate.net>			http://www.gate.net/~storm/


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