* Manoj Srivastava ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > a) legal to distribute Where, and to who? You can't distribute something without being somewhere and distributing it to someone.
> b) meets the dfsg
> c) scratches an itch you feel, and something you are willing to sign
> up to maintain and keep bug free.
Where do we specify these requirements for a package to be in Debian?
The Social Contract says Debian will not include software that has a set
of legal restrictions on it and the DFSG says the license can't
restrict distribution but neither seems to talk about the legality of
distribution beyond licenses. When you're talking about 'controlled'
things (cryptography, pornography, probably other stuff) there's more to
it than just the license, at least in some places.
Additionally, personally I wouldn't be adverse to there being some
additional requirements such that we remain focused on providing a good
operating system as opposted to a general data distribution system for
anything people want to distribute.
In fact, it seems likely to me that there *are* certain additional
requirements beyond those above which are enforced by the archive
maintainers through general good sense, they're just not *documented*
anywhere and so our users don't actually know what they are (or other
developers, for that matter).
Stephen
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