On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 04:24:56PM +0100, Rémi Letot wrote: > Also they don't make sure that it continues to work on the stable > release, fix security bugs in the current debian release, package them > accoarding to debian policy,... If the license does not permit modification, the above may not be policy. See qmail, for instance. > If I want to rely on upstream authors for distribution-wide > coordination, I can certainly switch to some other distribution that > is built on that model. Debian is not. That's true. Debian is not ideally molded for high interoperability with non-free software. We don't have lots of lawyers and money for license arrangements to throw at the problem. -- G. Branden Robinson | If a man ate a pound of pasta and a Debian GNU/Linux | pound of antipasto, would they branden@debian.org | cancel out, leaving him still http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | hungry? -- Scott Adams
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