Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian
* Matthew Palmer (mjp16@ieee.uow.edu.au) [030424 02:50]:
> On Wed, 23 Apr 2003, Andreas Barth wrote:
> > Can't you understand that as an author you would like that messages
> > like this are not removed without your consent? The internet
> > robustness principle says: Be liberal in what you accept and
> > conservative in what you send. Modifiying code is sending, and
> Writing the code in the first place is also sending. I'd say that, under
> the circumstances for which reiserfsprogs is most likely to be used by a
> person, a long credits speil at the end of execution isn't overly
> conservative. The principles apply to everyone.
That's certainly true. But this list is called debian-devel and not
hans-reiser-devel. (Otherwise I would say something about
misunderstandable licences etc.)
> > therefore the debian-maintainers should be conservative in making
> > changes against the will of the upstream maintainers. (Formally
>
> That I wholeheartedly agree with - hell, it should be put in the Developers
> Reference in big pointy letters.
>
> However, at the end of the day, maintainers have signed on to do the best
> for our users, not upstream maintainers.
That's true. I said "conservative" and not "must not". (I just don't
like the attitude by a few writers here that the debian maintainer
needs not to be polite to the upstream maintainer and should completly
ignore his wishes. That the debian maintainer has at the end of the
day to do the best for the users is not the point.)
> The question must be asked and
> answered, how are users better served - by keeping a long credits message
> and reiserfs, or switching to another journalling file system whose tools
> don't have such unpleasantness.
True. But I can't remember this discussion here.
Andi
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