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Re: [Gnewsense-dev] status of freedom bugs
From: |
Karl Goetz |
Subject: |
Re: [Gnewsense-dev] status of freedom bugs |
Date: |
Sat, 5 Dec 2009 11:04:09 +1030 |
On Fri, 4 Dec 2009 16:37:49 +0100
Robert Millan <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 12:28:03AM +1030, Karl Goetz wrote:
> > 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.
True (I titled this bug badly, it should have mentioned the possibility
of mame copying).
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=559443#10 means this
will be fixed 'in the future' at least.
> 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.
Would you say its a situation similar to samba?
> > 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.
I'm familiar with overrides, but not sure how one would remove the
suggests fields - rebuild packages?
kk
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Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS)
Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer
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- [Gnewsense-dev] status of freedom bugs, Karl Goetz, 2009/12/04
- Re: [Gnewsense-dev] status of freedom bugs, Robert Millan, 2009/12/04
- Re: [Gnewsense-dev] status of freedom bugs, Karl Goetz, 2009/12/05
- Re: [Gnewsense-dev] status of freedom bugs, Bake Timmons, 2009/12/05
- Re: [Gnewsense-dev] status of freedom bugs, Sam Geeraerts, 2009/12/08
- Re: [Gnewsense-dev] status of freedom bugs, Sam Geeraerts, 2009/12/10