F20 System Wide Change: Web Assets

Till Maas opensource at till.name
Wed Aug 21 17:50:52 UTC 2013


On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 04:52:53PM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> 
> Le Dim 4 août 2013 10:44, Till Maas a écrit :

> > The guideline should be to ask upstream to fix the meta data. In case of
> > missing license text (e.g. source code with a GPL header but no copy of
> > the GPL itself), it is also upstream's task to fix it and the packager's
> > to ask for it. And if upstream fixes it, the debian font packagers do
> > not need to replicate Fedora's effort.
> 
> This is already the guideline, the problem is what do you do when upstream
> postpones fixing to "indefinitely later" because licensing stuff is
> low-prio for them

If upstream does not see an urgent problem in it, why should we? We do
the same with license copies in packages. Also it would be upstream that
might have a problem with the license information, since they provided
the fonts like they are and allow distribution, I cannot see a problem.

Regards
Till


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