[Pkg-db-devel] Bug#256332: clarification of doc licensing for db3/db4.2

dann frazier dannf at debian.org
Tue Apr 18 04:26:54 UTC 2006


(Top posting to continue current flow)
I've added the DPL to the CC list.

aj: do you have an opinion here, or do you think its worth delegating
    this decision to someone?  See #256332 and the debian-legal
    archive for background.

On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 04:46:02PM +1000, Andrew Donnellan wrote:
> Ask the new DPL (aj) I guess.
> 
> andrew
> 
> On 4/10/06, Mike Olson <mike.olson at oracle.com> wrote:
> > Dann wrote:
> >
> > > Thank you for your offer.  I think a relicensing would be the cleanest
> > > approach.
> > >
> > > Note that I am a Debian Developer, but I do not speak for the db
> > > packaging, release, or legal teams.  I hope that they'll jump in if
> > > they are in disagreement with any of the statements I've made here.
> >
> > This is going to be some work for me.  Oracle's legal department has been
> > very helpful on our open source requests so far, but it's a large team and
> > is not familiar with this issue yet.  I'll need to find, then brief, then
> > extract approval from, the right people here.
> >
> > Before I do that, can I get some kind of authoritative statement from
> > Debian that the effort is necessary, and that it will satisfy the concerns
> > that have raised this issue for the second time?  I want to be helpful,
> > but I want to be sure we are solving the problem here.  To that end,
> > direction from db, release or legal -- whoever can speak for Debian --
> > would be good.
> > 					mike
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 

-- 
dann frazier





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