severity 388691 normal thanks On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 07:19:16PM -0300, Wagner Bruna wrote:
> ["public use"] > > Your reading of this clause is not the plain English reading of it. > > "public use" does not mean "use in public", in means "use by the > > public" -- i.e., "use by anyone". > I don't know if it is clear enough, at least for a non-native English > speaker (me). Bug 321178 also suggests it should be worded better. That's fine, but "could/should be worded better" is not grounds for a severity: serious bug. That severity is reserved for cases where we believe we do not have a valid license, or we believe the license we have does not grant us all the rights required by the DFSG. Based on your description of the problem, I am therefore downgrading this bug to 'normal'. Note that I have not looked at the copyright file myself, and am not warranting that this package is free of RC bugs -- I am only saying that "public use" is not ambiguous to me, and does not itself necessitate an RC bug report. But the plain reading of "public use" under US copyright law does *not* cover distribution or modification, which are also necessary for a package to be included in main (and permission to distribute is required for the package to be distributed by Debian even in non-free); so if the text cited in this bug report is the *full* license statement, and there are no further clarifications available from the copyright holder, then we do have a problem and this bug should be re-upgraded. > > If this was the only problematic clause, I agree there's no > > problem here. I assumed, based on the bug report you submitted, > > that there was an issue with the license not permitting > > /modification and distribution/, rather than use. > Well, I submitted it as "serious", and justified by Policy 2.3, because > the copyright file stated itself as a "work in progress", and 3270 was > removed before because of licensing issues (although some of them not > relevant anymore). But, if there's no problem, sorry for the noise. I don't know that there is no problem, I just don't think there is the problem you're citing. :) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
