Noone is assuming anything here. The skins included in the package are DFSG-free, double-checked. Explicit permission from authors, COPYING files, etc. There are even some very nice skins that aren't included in this release because there was no time for their authors to be contacted. Em Sun, 4 Apr 2004 05:20:41 -0400, Nathanael Nerode <neroden@twcny.rr.com> escreveu: > We can't assume that these skins are free software. For > these to go in 'main', Debian needs licenses which grant everyone explicit > permission to modify (we might be able to assume that permission to > redistribute is granted because the authors uploaded them to www.xmms.org or > whereever, but we can't assume that permission to modify is granted). > > You *must* have a DFSG-free license from each copyright holder (which in this > case means each skin author -- for skins partly 'ripped' from other sources, > it means the original artwork's author as well); and you must include > copyright notices from *all* these authors, as well as their licenses, in the > debian/copyright file. > > You can suggest the GPL or the 2-clause BSD license to authors. > > Do *not* upload a package to Debian 'main' without checking the licensing > issues. -- Guilherme de S. Pastore <gpastore@colband.com.br>
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