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Re: Q: NEW process licence requirements



On Tue, Apr 03, 2018 at 07:57:11AM +0200, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote:
> > > Like it or not, but there *is* a big difference in the project making
> > > something available for the big wide world (which a public NEW would
> > > be), or a user putting it somewhere readable for everyone even though
> > > the latter might be using project resources too.
> > 
> > What is the big (legal) difference between distributing something
> > from the Debian group on the Debian machine salsa.debian.org, and
> > distributing the same from a different Debian machine?
> 
> People are mirroring the Debian pool under a set of well-understood norms, as 
> that's what the Debian project "produces" (think of the mirror network, people 
> pressing CDs, etc). A .deb in a Debian suite in the Debian pool isn't 
> comparable to a random .deb, as only the former has the Debian-seal-of-
> approval (DFSG & fulfills releasability criterias).
> 
> Salsa is not meant to be mirrored by third-parties, and really shouldn't.
But that equally applies to NEW.


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