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Re: [Gnewsense-dev] status of freedom bugs
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Robert Millan |
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Re: [Gnewsense-dev] status of freedom bugs |
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Fri, 4 Dec 2009 16:37:49 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) |
On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 12:28:03AM +1030, Karl Goetz wrote:
> http://bugs.gnewsense.org/Bugs/00319 upstream wontfix
> http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg01646.html
For the record: the Tech Ctte is not actually empowered to decide on this,
since it's not a technical matter. It was my poor decision that put them
in a situation where they could make this ruling. Now that they have, it
can't be overriden except by a GR supermajority (which won't happen).
Just in case someone can learn from my mistake...
> http://bugs.gnewsense.org/Bugs/00323
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=559444
I think they might have a point here.
> http://bugs.gnewsense.org/Bugs/00351 partly fixed upstream, forwarded
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=559443
Files without explicit copyright notice aren't necessarily unlicensed. It
is generally understood that the global license notice applies to them.
It's good practice to put a license notice in each file though.
> http://bugs.gnewsense.org/Bugs/00354 not sure if debian would consider this a
> bug.
They wouldn't. Actually I'm not even sure it's a bug myself. The person
running the non-free software that could connect to this isn't necessarily
the same who runs the server. In fact, they might not even know each other.
> http://bugs.gnewsense.org/Bugs/00355 not sure if debian would consider this a
> bug.
They consider this a bug for Recommends but not for Suggests. I think our
easiest approach would be to remove those suggests using archive overrides
rather than removing the affected package.
So we basically have two options:
- Adjust overrides manually for each package that is found to do this.
- Remove Suggests field altogether. It wasn't that useful anyway.
I tend to favour the second due scarcity of manpower.
--
Robert Millan
The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and
how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we
still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."