bruce@pixar.com (Bruce Perens) writes: > Another question: are we obligated to protect the name-space for third-party > packages? For example, someone makes the non-debian package "foobar" available, > and a Debian maintainer then decides to issue a "foobar" package (assume it's > the same software, that will usually be the case). Is the Debian maintainer > obligated to change the name? Of course not. But I hope that the Debian developers can at least be a bit cooperative with 3rd party .deb packages. These are exactly the same issues we will need to deal with when somebody chooses to use Debian and dpkg as a base for a value-added commercial distribution. Since that has already been stated as one of the goals of the Debian project to act as a base for those sort of things -- we are sort of obligated to figure out ways to be more cooperative with outside projects. The "unofficial repository", and the Debian-JP project are just two "challenges" to the centralized nature of Debian. I am sure there will be others -- are you still planning "Linux for Hams?" Cheers, - Jim
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