Re: LSB bastards
Steve Langasek <vorlon@netexpress.net> writes:
> If the software is DFSG-compliant, the LSB is and always will be a non-issue.
> Debian will assimilate that software in due time, do a better job of packaging
> it, and get the integration right where other distros will continue to
> flounder.
That's not necessarily the case. A company/university/community may
have DSFG-free software which is of little interest to the wider
Debian community. I may put together some software to give easy
access to systems at my wife's lab, or some visualization software for
home-grown apps. I'd naturally like it to work across many
distributions, because I've got lots of opinionated users who won't
settle on a distro, and there's no change of getting it into every
distribution.
So, the LSB can be convenient even for DSFG stuff. Certainly anything
DSFG-free _could_ be packaged officially for Debian, but in many
cases, it might never happen.
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