On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 17:21:10 -0700 Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 12:49:49AM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: [...] > > > This is effectively a clarical error > > > What do you mean by "clarical"? I'm sorry to ask, but I am not an > > English native speaker and no dictionary could help... > > clerical. Sorry, typo.
Ah, understood: "an error made in copying or writing", dict says. At any rate, it's a clerical error that has not yet been corrected... [...] > > Debian hardly (if ever) relies on implicit permission grants from > > third parties: > > That's not true. Lots of patches are committed, by our upstreams and > by our developers, with only implicit grants. Ack (even though I think it would be far better to grant explicit licenses for patches, especially when the work they are based on is released under a non-copyleft license...). However I feel that the two scenarios are not comparable: when someone contributes a patch to be incorporated into a work, he/she can be assumed to be OK with the license of the work. On the other hand, a completely new work (such as the release notes) is not so convincingly implicitly licensed in a DFSG-free manner (under which specific license, anyway?) just because the general Debian documentation policy states that it will. [...] > > Where can I find a comprehensive list of individual contributors > > (whose contribution is creative enough to grant them a copyright > > interest in the work)? > > > Are there any others besides the ones who are credited in the footer > > of the contents page[2]? > > I would suggest also checking the cvs log for the repository. Well, I've just noticed that there's no link to the _Release Notes_ source from the dedicated page[3]. This should be fixed as well, I think. [3] http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/releasenotes I suppose I can find the source here[4], but I would need confirmation before going on and possibly dig into the *wrong* source!! ;-) Even better: could you please suggest a command-line that I can use to checkout the source? [4] http://cvs.debian.org/ddp/manuals.sgml/release-notes/?cvsroot=debian-doc Any more practical way of getting the complete list of contributors? -- http://frx.netsons.org/doc/nanodocs/etch_workstation_install.html Need to read a Debian etch installation walk-through? ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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