Re: LiDIA's statement of GPL only in mailing list archives (original) (raw)

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Subject: Re: LiDIA's statement of GPL only in mailing list archives
From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 18:41:59 +0200
Message-id: <[🔎] 87fy3xil60.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>
In-reply-to: <[🔎] 20070708005703.GU4800@volo.donarmstrong.com> (Don Armstrong's message of "Sat, 7 Jul 2007 17:57:03 -0700")
References: <[🔎] 9543b3a40707071020u5ddde90cvfd8ab17f0b373e13@mail.gmail.com> <[🔎] 87zm27n2hh.fsf@benfinney.id.au> <[🔎] 20070708005703.GU4800@volo.donarmstrong.com>

Don Armstrong:

On Sun, 08 Jul 2007, Ben Finney wrote:

An email has been judged sufficient for many Debian packages, if it unambiguously specifies all of the above, and is clearly from the copyright holder. Copy and paste into the 'debian/copyright' file the part of the message that has all that information, along with that message's 'date', 'from', 'message-id' fields.

Yeah; bonus points if the message is GPG signed by a key which is in and multiply connected to strongly connected set.

Yeah, as if this made it a particularly authoritative source for any kind of legal statement. 8-)

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