Too many people have raised concerns about these changes resulting in a delay uploading packages. Erich Schubert contacted an author of some freeware and asked him, if he could licence them under an open source licence. His reply didn't exactly show that he read the provided DFSG . A couple of requests showed us that many people still aren't sure when a package is intended to enter the testing distribution. Anthony Towns posted an explanation about packages and testing.
Different countries have different laws.
Amicus Brief for Matt Pavlovich's Court Case. Levy is Matt's attorny in the DVD CCA v. Bunner, et al. suit. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has details . Directions to Using Autoconf and Friends. The whole GNU autotools stuff is a hairy topic, but if we don't document how to best use them somewhere, it will only get worse.