Re: Having a non-free and a non-cd branch?
Chris Lawrence <quango@ix.netcom.com> writes:
> 5. (paraphrase) Our maintainers are too stupid to tell the difference
> between CD-ROMable software and non-CD-ROMable software.
>
> If they are too stupid to read a license and figure out whether it's OK
> to put the software on a CD or not (i.e. can't pick out phrases like
> "You may redistribute this software in unmodified form without
> restriction."), then they're probably too stupid to be maintainers.
10:20:40@dcsun4| ~/mail/sent $find . -type f -name mail\* | xargs zgrep -i -e "Subject: .*is not (DFSG|free)" | grep -v "Re: " | wc -l
43
10:20:49@dcsun4| ~/mail/sent $
That's at least 43 packages where the maintainer has failed to work
out (for whatever reason) that the software is not DFSG free[1] and
put the package erroneously into main. That's no thoughtless ad
hominem attack, it's plain fact.
I think you've maniacally under-estimated the potential of maintainers
failing to understand/properly check/whatever the copyright.
[1] And that's an under-estimation, as that's: a) only my checks, b)
not all of my checks, c) no checks of contrib, d) no recent
checks, e) not a full check of main.
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James
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