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Re: Contacting authors



Before packaging something, I check with the upstream author.  I know it's GPL
but I like to be polite about it.  In one case, I had the upstream author make
some "suggestions" and one of them was to make sure any and all mail about the
package got sent to me.  I think he'd be an example of someone who doesn't want
a lot of email about his software...

On 07-Oct-98 Martin Schulze wrote:
> Alexander Koch wrote:
>> Hi Joey.
>> 
>> > What do you think about it?
>> 
>> Will it produce more mail to the authors? Will *they* like it?
> 
> Which author doesn't like to be contacted wrt his software?
> 
> Besides, you can leave it out.
> 
> Regards,
> 
>       Joey
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