ARB legality checks

[Colin Watson]

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 07:02:58AM -0800, Allison Randal wrote:
> This is one of the topics we discussed at UDS, with the conclusion that  
> while we may not be quite as strict as Debian, we will follow most of  
> their guidelines, as a well-tested procedure for ensuring that the  
> software is legally distributable.

Ah, thank you.  Do you have a reference to a gobby document or something
like that?

> We're setting up a "Security Checklist" wiki page now, and may need a  
> similar "Legal Checklist", so it's completely transparent what we're  
> accepting and rejecting. (We might be able to refer to the  
> PackagingGuide's Copyright content instead, will re-review with an eye  
> to how straightforward it is to apply it to our process.)

Normally I'm a fan of incorporating things by reference, but I think it
would be a little confusing in this case - you'd have to say "this
document, except for X, Y, and Z".

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]