Re: Why is firebird in Debian? (original) (raw)

Francesco Poli frx@firenze.linux.it wrote:

On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 18🔞53 +0100 (BST) MJ Ray wrote:

I suspect it's not happened because ftpmasters decided to accept MPL, but ask by emailing them first, not by filing a serious bug.

Is ftpmaster@d.o the right address?

Sorry. I edited that paragraph heavily. 'Them' was meant to be 'the maintainers'.

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If you are in a rush, please put this on your TODO rather than 'going off at half-cock'.

Well, I hope I am not the only person on this planet who cares about Debian, the SC, the DFSG, and licenses. I (re-)discovered what I think is a serious bug which should be fixed ASAP: since I was not finding enough time to do a complete analysis myself and file bug reports, I thought that some other debian-legal regular(s) could get interested and take care of the issue, if I raised it on the list...

In which case, I feel it would have been better to post a 'is this a bug?' message instead of 'Why is this in debian?' especially with all the poisonous HINADD/HINALing that is going on recently.

Apparently, I was wrong: debian-legal seems to be much different from how it was when I started to participate... :-(

I share some of your concerns, but I don't think this aspect has changed much since I started posting here.

Hope that explains,

MJR/slef My Opinion Only: see http://people.debian.org/~mjr/ Please follow http://www.uk.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct

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