[Pkg-zfsonlinux-devel] zfs-linux_0.6.2-1_amd64.changes REJECTED

[Paul Richards Tagliamonte]

Hello, ZFS on Linux maintainers,

At a recent ftpteam meeting we discussed this package, and what to do about it.

Our consensus was that this package appears to violate the spirit of the GPL at
minimum, and may cause legal problems. Judges often interpret documents as they're
intended to read, hacks to comply with the letter but not the intent are not
looked upon fondly. This may be a hard thing for technical folks to accept, but
in legal cases one usually isn't dealing with technical people.

As such, this package has been rejected with the following notes:

 * Please take care to fix your naming issues. Please talk with the kFreeBSD folks
   on how to best handle the namespace. The kFreeBSD folks had these names
   first, it's up to them how they're used.

 * We recommend that the DPL put a question to our lawyers, providing a full and
   complete background on the situation. (We are happy to help reviewing it before
   it gets sent off). We will defer judgement on the legality of distributing ZoL
   in Debian to them.

Thanks,
  Paul, on behalf of the ftpteam

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