Hi there, On Wednesday 18 August 2010 16:00:09 Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > * Marcos Marado <mindboosterno...@gmail.com> [2010-08-17 16:47:19 CEST]: > > Since this is an RC bug (thanks to the attribution issue), I guess that > > the best way to quickly solve this is to: > > 1) split this bug in two, one for the inclusion of two different .cow > > files (wishlist, even if .cow's are harmless, I guess that adding them at > > this point would be a policy violation, and the best way would be to ask > > upstream to add them anyway), and the other for the licensing issues; > > There is no need to split it in two - that got done four years ago > already and the two cow files are even part of the package since almost > the same amount of time: #367310
Cool. > > 2) since there are no fundament for the suspicion that some .cow files > > have attribution missing (besides kitty.cow), either than the fact that > > "if it happened to one, it might have happen to other" we can assume that > > the only faulty .cow is kitty.cow > > You challenged me and it didn't took me long to also find Felix Lee > attribution for the daemon: > http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/daemon_ascii.txt > > The assumption thus is proven with minor effort as being wrong, sorry. :/ You win ;-) > > 3) I've seen kitty ASCII from kitty.cow in three different ways (with > > "Felix Lee", with "fl" and without anything) -- as a matter of fact there > > are also two different variants of it, one with spaces in the paws and > > other without them -- but I think there's no dispute anywhere regarding > > if it is by Felix or not, so just to be sure we can add either "Felix > > Lee" or "fl" to this .cow file, and have the RC part of this bug fixed. > > Actually Felix did produce a whole lot of different kitten art so it's > no surprise to find ones with different spacing, or even different > tails. Adding the attribution into the comment section should be > sufficient, though ... > > Unfortunately that's not enough about the RC part of this bug because > that is about missing licensing information, wether we actually are > allowed to distribute or modify them. People might consider ascii art as > something laughable, but it's still creative output and should be > respected the same. So without having license information that allows us > to distribute and/or modify these things we shouldn't ship them in main, > the much that I would hate having them removed myself. You're right, I didn't think that much into the issue. [~]>apt-rdepends -r cowsay Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done cowsay Maybe it could easilly be moved to non-free until a better sollution appears? -- Marcos Marado -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
