Bug#354899: [Portaudio] Re: portaudio in Debian, license updates?

[Ross Bencina]

Hello Junichi

Can you please identify yourself as someone who has legal qualification to 
make the following assertions. I am concerned that any arbitrary Debian user 
can take offence to our license without reasonable legal grounds. I simply 
do not know who you are.

> I've opened bugs now, I don't know if it hasn't happened before.
> Please Cc' the respective bugs so that we know it's fixed either way.
>
> The possible options that I see are:
>
> 1. audacity/portaudio are removed from Debian
>
> 2. license text is modified so that it clarifies that the 'request' is
>   a non-binding request which is optional and not a mandatory section.

>From my point of view this matter was discussed at length a number of years 
ago and as a result Debian decided to include PortAudio in main -- to me 
this indicates that a decision was made to allow the intended interpretation 
of our current license. I understand that such decisions may not be final 
however you are asking me to spend a considerable amount of my time 
organising for the license to be revised.. and right now I am not getting a 
clear picture that this is absolutely necessary.

Best wishes

Ross.