On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 11:54:19AM -0000, Thomas Dickey wrote: > Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> wrote: > >> No code from XFree86 after the relicensing on 13 February 2004, or > >> bearing an X-Oz Technologies, Inc., copyright notice, should be included > >> in Debian's XFree86 packages (or anywhere in Debian main or contrib, for > >> that matter). > > > =2E..without explicitly checking its CVS commit logs for any application > > of the X-Oz or XFree86 1.1 licenses. > > That's more to the point. But that should be done for any type of import. > It's better to focus on the issue rather than the instance. I think heightened scrutiny is warranted in this case. ...that is, if it's reasonable to assume that when people and organizations go to the trouble of changing a copyright license, they intend to enforce it. -- G. Branden Robinson | Somewhere, there is a .sig so funny Debian GNU/Linux | that reading it will cause an branden@debian.org | aneurysm. This is not that .sig. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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