On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 01:21:07 +0100 MJ Ray wrote: > Francesco Poli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Could you please phrase what you would consider an accurate (non > > misleading) credit? > > "kernel-image-2.6.8-2-386.deb by the Debian kernel team and others"
I'm really losing you here... :-(
You are basically saying that crediting the author(s) of *any* work upon
which yours is based is misleading credit and could get you sued for
false attribution.
That sounds really unbelievable to me, since
"kernel-image-2.6.8-2-386.deb by the Debian kernel team and others"
seems much more misleading and false than
"kernel-image-2.6.8-2-386.deb by the Debian kernel team, based on the
Linux kernel by Linus Torvalds and others"
Actually I would feel more in danger of being sued for false attribution
if I stated the former, than the latter.
What you seem to claim is that I can take the Debian GNU/Linux
distribution, make some modifications (e.g.: I could purge all those
nasty GFDL'd documents from main!), rename it as PoliOS and state
something like:
"PoliOS is the Free operating system
created by Francesco Poli and others"
All I would say about the hard work by present and past DDs, and by
upstream authors is that little "and others".
This would be accurate credit, you say?
I really cannot understand, perhaps... :-(
[...]
> > I would rather suggest: start from a clearly DFSG-free license and
> > do nothing else.
>
> So would I, but what do you do when that fails?
Try and explain the issues better, perhaps...
>
> > I mean: there are bugs that have already been marked as "done"
> > because of GR-2006-001.
> > This sounds like "This bug is not a bug".
>
> I agree. I've seen one in your bug log and it was a shame.
I've seen #334908 and #323687, so far.
[...]
> I don't know what to say to encourage continuing with bug hunting.
[...]
> Personally, I'd also be interested in a quick "what I'm
> looking at now" newsletters/blog.
I'm sure I quite understand what you mean: are you saying that you'd be
interested in seeing *my* blog?
I haven't (yet) entered the so-called blogosphere...
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:-( This Universe is buggy! Where's the Creator's BTS? ;-)
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