]] Stefano Zacchiroli > On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 11:04:16AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > > My point is that where the money goes should be a choice of the user, > > with the default suggested to the user determined by upstream. Debian > > should exert no influence over that choice, except maybe asking > > upstream to add us to the choices available to the user. > > This is a very interesting aspect of this discussion. In fact it is the > tip of a much more general discussion we could have, although I suspect > it could go on for a long while... I don't think Debian as a Project has > a position on that matter, at least not yet. What happens now is that, > once more, the choice is up to the individual package maintainers, as > per Debian default governance model.
I think this is a discussion we should have, but perhaps not right now in this very thread. [...] > All in all, as a project we should simply see the agreement as something > like "for every web browser in Debian who decides to use t=something, > Debian will receive donations". If, due to the usual way we maintain > packages, including upstream relationships, that set will shrink to > nothing, too bad. The agreement will simply allow the set to exist, it > will not magically fill it with browsers that implement t=something. Based on this, I don't see any downsides for us in accepting such an agreement, only possible upsides, so I think we should do it. Cheers, -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87d37u3894....@qurzaw.varnish-software.com