Hi!
* Marcos Marado <mindboosterno...@gmail.com> [2010-08-18 17:08:11 CEST]:
> On Wednesday 18 August 2010 16:00:09 Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
> > 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?
Moving it to non-free won't solve the issue that we don't know wether
we are legally allowed to redistribute them. Moving to non-free is an
option for stuff that is distributable at least - which without any
statement from the original authors of the ascii art isn't given. For
stuff done by Felix Lee his page states that redistribution is allowed
so those can go (and have to go) to non-free. It doesn't though solve
the issues with the remaining "cows" that got collected by the author
back then. As much as I hate writing that, I fear we'll have to remove
them.
Enjoy!
Rhonda
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