Re: Is this Debian-specific?
Henning Makholm writes:
> 1: is a vaguely formulated emailed statement of intention legally
> binding enough to be OK for the DFSG.
> 2: should we interpret the email as being "specific to Debian" simply
> because the author made his statement in the context of a request
> for clarification on behalf of the Debian maintainer?
> In both cases I suppose arguments either way could be made.
Depends on the exact wording of the email, I think. In this case, it
reads in part:
> Now, if we are to apply such a patch to the mirror script in the .deb
> file (and hence in the .diff.gz), is that okay with you? To be clear,
> this would mean that our mirror.pl would be different from your
> mirror.pl, but the changes would be most clearly documented in the
> .diff.gz and distributed also as patches to the released version. I
> find your copyright file ambigous, in particular the paragraph
> Permission to modify the software is granted, but not the right to
> distribute the modified code. Modifications are to be distributed as
> patches to released version.
I think I got the wording from you! Or at least some other Debian
package you pointed me to!
> Our scheme would be at the same time modified code, and patches to the
> released version.
> I would be glad if you could clarify whether this gets a nod up or down
> from you.
The above scheme is OK with me.
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This seems to me to be Debian-specific.
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