Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 06:40:06PM +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote: >> THEY STEAL our packages > > Uarg. That sentence let me discard everything sensible/intelligent > you might have said in your mail. I often read sentences like that > in the discussion. It makes me sick and wonder if I do invest my time in > the right project. > Lets face it: If you do make things open source > you /must/ and really /should/ accept that others do re-use it according > to the license under which you license it. Ubuntu does exactly that. > If we start telling that Ubuntu people are thiefs because they > re-use our work to make derivative works from it, then we should be > consequent and call ourselves thiefs too, because we "steal" the work of > our upstreams. > But OTOH it would be just better and easier to not forget > what Debian stands for. Free Software. Everytime you might > feel its appropriate to tell Ubuntu (or other downstreams) > thiefs, it might be worth to hold in a moment and have a look > at our Social Contract which you accepted, when you became > part of Debian.
Yes, but OTOH we strongly support copyleft softwares versus the BSD- like softwares, because we expect to have back the works and because we expect to behave as a big community. I agree with you, it is not thiefs, but anyway the feeling are not so good, especially because we are talking about a big player with enough resources to behave as we do with upstreams. ciao cate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org