Hi, On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 06:40:06PM +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote: > THEY STEAL our packages Uarg. That sentence let me discard everything sensible/intelligent you might have said in your mail. I often read sentences like that in the discussion. It makes me sick and wonder if I do invest my time in the right project. Lets face it: If you do make things open source you /must/ and really /should/ accept that others do re-use it according to the license under which you license it. Ubuntu does exactly that. If we start telling that Ubuntu people are thiefs because they re-use our work to make derivative works from it, then we should be consequent and call ourselves thiefs too, because we "steal" the work of our upstreams. But OTOH it would be just better and easier to not forget what Debian stands for. Free Software. Everytime you might feel its appropriate to tell Ubuntu (or other downstreams) thiefs, it might be worth to hold in a moment and have a look at our Social Contract which you accepted, when you became part of Debian. Sad and sick, Patrick
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