Re: Bug#74715: ITP: Star Office -- Open Source Office Suite
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 04:37:53PM -0300, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote:
> > The New Maintainer's Guide specifically states
> > "you should contact program's author(s) to check if they agree with
> > packaging it."
> >
> > For me, checking if the upstream author agrees is like asking for
> > permission.
>
> Well.. that guide is wrong... It implies that the author has more rights
> than he really has
No, it doesn't.
The main point of suggesting contacting upstream is because you have to
contact upstream sooner or later, so better do it sooner. In fact, the
author may have a completely valid reason why one should not package
something, e.g. if his program is in a highly alpha phase of development
and he doesn't want a slew of bug reports all of the sudden.
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