Re: GR proposal: the AGPL does not meet the DFSG
"Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw)" <faw@funlabs.org> writes:
> On 18-03-2009 20:55, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr> writes:
>>> General Resolution made in accordance with Debian Constitution 4.1.5:
>>> The Debian project resolves that softwares licensed under the GNU
>>> Affero Public License are not free according to the Debian Free
>>> Software Guideline.
>> What is the current ftpmaster ruling on this license? Possibly the
>> same question in other words: why are you proposing this as a GR, when
>> that's not normally how license evaluation is done?
>
> FTP Master team had announced their position on debian-legal:
>
> | The short summary is: We think that works licensed under the AGPL can
> | go into main. (Provided they don't have any other problems).
> Quoted from: http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2008/11/msg00097.html
Ah, so this is actually a delegate override.
Bill, could you please change the GR to explicitly say that it's
overriding a delegate decision so that it's clear in its implications and
motivation?
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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