Re: Who should package&host a product?
Steve Greenland wrote:
> On 17-Jan-01, 14:00 (CST), "Wesley W. Terpstra" <terpstra@javien.com> wrote:
> >
> > So, you say that people using the product should be the debian maintainers.
> > Well, we here all use them, so that would be a reason for one of us to be
> > the debian maintainer. However, can one become a debian maintainer when
> > one's only intention is to maintain packages which your company develops?
> > That seems kinda shifty-eyed. :-)
>
> I suppose a few people might think so, but there are lots of maintainers
> who maintain only a few packages for some "selfish" reason, either
> as the original author of the packaged software or as a member of a
> company. So long as you maintain the package reasonably well, I don't
> see the problem. If the package is useful, then nobody should care
> whether or not you're being payed to package it.
I agree.
It's fine with me if someone is paid to maintain a free package
for Debian.
Where it crosses the line for me is the hypothetical case where a
Debian maintainer uploads a package for non-free that consists of
shareware that he directly profits from licensing [1]. Since
this doesn't appear to be the case for your company (i.e. your
package would be in main), I don't see a conflict at all.
[1] It crosses the line _for_ _me_. That doesn't mean it doesn't
already happen.
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