Hello, Justin. On Tuesday, 04 August 2020 at 19:15, Justin W. Flory (he/him) wrote: > On 8/4/20 9:42 AM, Richard Fontana wrote: > > As for how to convince upstream, I can't help with that. At one time > > Linux distribution licensing policy would have had a lot of influence > > on upstream behavior, but I think that is much less true today.
Coincidentally, I found that Debian is also distributing uBlock Origin and doing even more source clean-up as they're packaging an old version. Maybe that'll help convince upstream. Thanks for your reply, Richard. > Usually what works well for me is if you can collaborate/work with the > upstream to build understanding of how a license can negatively impact > the wider distribution of their work to a technical audience (Fedora/EL). > > JSHint is a very contemporary example (like, shared yesterday after 7+ > years of blind-rewriting) you can use as a reference: > > https://twitter.com/JugglinMike/status/1290317065295929345 > > http://mikepennisi.com/blog/2020/you-may-finally-use-jshint-for-evil/ Thanks for the story, it was an enlightening read. I will make one last attempt and hope it's enlightening to this upstream, too. Regards, Dominik -- Fedora https://getfedora.org | RPM Fusion http://rpmfusion.org There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles. -- from "Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan _______________________________________________ legal mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]
