Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian

[bts@alum.mit.edu (Brian T. Sniffen)]

Ed Boraas <ed@boraas.ca> writes:

> For instance, if Hans insists on retaining the complete sponsorship
> message verbatim, how strongly would you, as users of the package,
> feel about the issue?

I don't think such a mandate can exist in free software; it certainly
isn't GPL-compatible.  On the other hand, if he left the license free
and simply asked that distributors not make such changes, that would
be free and at least somewhat reasonable.

-Brian

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