Joerg Schilling a écrit : >> Distors are often viewed as mere packagers, but they tend to drive >> upstream development in variety of ways. Here's just a few of Debian's >> contributions to the world of FLOSS during 2006: > >> * creation of cdrkit, a fork of cdrtools, due to a change of licence >> which happened to be DFSG-incompatible > > You are not talking about a notable contribution but about a notable > damage to FLOSS caused by people who are unwilling to cooperate in a useful > way. > > Note that there was a licence change with cdrtools but this was a change > towards more freedom and the current official cdrtools are of course still > accepted free software and do not have any license problem. > > Note that the license change was definitely not the reason for the fork (the > fork would have been done in a different way if the license change was the > reason). The reason for the change rather was the unability/unwillingness > of Mr. Eduard Bloch in cooperating. You need to blame him for causing damage > to Debian users...
You forget to mention Ubuntu users, openSUSE users, Fedora users, Mandriva users, Gentoo users, Slackware users, BLFS users, and probably others. Given the number of distribution involved, I wonder who is unable to cooperate. Aurelien -- .''`. Aurelien Jarno | GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 : :' : Debian developer | Electrical Engineer `. `' [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] `- people.debian.org/~aurel32 | www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
