Re: notable Debian contributions in 2006
On 10968 March 1977, Joerg Schilling wrote:
>>* creation of cdrkit, a fork of cdrtools, due to a change of licence
>>which happened to be DFSG-incompatible
> Note that there was a licence change with cdrtools but this was a change
> towards more freedom and the current official cdrtools are of course still
> accepted free software and do not have any license problem.
Wrong.
> Note that the license change was definitely not the reason for the fork (the
> fork would have been done in a different way if the license change was the
> reason).
And again wrong, your license change *IS* the reason, we simply do not
accept incompatible licenses. No matter how much you love it.
--
bye Joerg
A BSP means that many DDs and other mere mortals get together to play
xroach. Sadly, that package was removed from Debian some time ago, so
they have to squash other bugs (preferably RC) instead.
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