On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 12:49:49AM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: > > Second, you've already cited, from > > http://www.debian.org/doc/docpolicy, a statement of intent that the > > release notes will be released under a DFSG-free license; and we have > > no reason to believe that the copyright holders (who are, um... a > > bunch of Debian developers) have any intention to do otherwise.
> But, as a matter of fact, this has not yet happened. > > 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. > > -- yes, it's unfortunate that we don't > > have a clear statement of the conditions under which people are > > allowed to reuse the release notes, but there is a clearly implicit > > grant of reproduction rights, since we ship these release notes on the > > Debian ISOs. > 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. > > - once a consensus is reached there, contact individual contributors > > to the release notes requesting a license grant > 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. -- 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]
