On Sat, Mar 13, 1999 at 05:11:42PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> > This has been discussed and shot down. If we start telling other people
> > why things aren't free software we open ourselves to lausuits and other
> > nastiness.
>
> That's silly. We always say why we consider a package to be non-free. That
> was not the reason. The reason why most objected was that IanJ expected
> everyone to carry out an email discussion with the copyright holder and
> include this in the package.
I'll let Manoj argue this one since his was one of the names I saw making
the above argument.
Certainly in many cases email discussion with the copyright holder ...
won't work:
To: somebody@sun.com
Subject: jdk considered non-free
:
In the above case somebody@sun.com is just going to laugh at you provided
they reply at all and there will end that...
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Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org> Debian GNU/Linux developer
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<Overfiend> partycle: I seriously do need a vacation from this package.
I actually had a DREAM about introducing a stupid new bug
into xbase-preinst last night. That's a Bad Sign.
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