Hi, I work for a company which does concurrent development for *nix as well as windows. For the *nix version of our project we plan to include the debian package format in our official release. We've already set up the building of lintian-happy packages for our software, and I wanted to enquire as to the most politically correct distribution scheme. First, some details about the project: The software will be released under a license that adheres to the DFSG -- in fact, our open source license is largely designed to satisfy it. :-) The project uses some packages that are not packaged in debian and some that were inadaquately packaged. We've repackaged these ourselves. Obviously, we are a commercial company. :-) However, our revenue model is not selling the software, but by charging for the use of our servers and databases. Thus we can contentedly make the software DFSG compliant. Our goal is to acheive maximal distribution. ;-) Since anyone running debian probably points to a debian mirror, we'd rather get our packages - and those we depend on - on the debian servers. So, what is the debian-correct method here? Should we just keep our packages to ourselves like helixcode was/is doing? Should we find an existing maintainer to dupload the debs we feed him? Should one of our developers apply to become a NM? Thanks for your time, ... and debian. :-) -- Wesley W. Terpstra <terpstra@javien.com> Javien Canada Inc. - Linux Developer
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