Re: is copyleft packaging bad for Debian?

Mechtilde Stehmann <[email protected]> Sat, 31 Jan 2026 17:18:13 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.project
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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> Imagine a proposal was made to extend Debian Policy with a rule, that
> packaging must be upstreamable - i.e. that packages licensed more
> strictly free than that of the contained project must be *rejected* at
> the NEW queue screening, and packages already in the archive with such
> "too strictly free" licensing should¹ be either corrected or dropped.
> 
> Would you vote for or against such a proposal?

+1 for this

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Mechtilde Stehmann
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