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Re: Bug#181028: cdrecord: promotes non-free software



On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 03:14:26PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> >>>>> In article <[🔎] E18mdgn-00075A-00@mid.downhill.at.eu.org>, Andreas Metzler <ametzler@downhill.at.eu.org> writes:
 
>> It is. Having a workable relationship with upstream sure is more
>> important *for me* than this offending status-message.
 
> 	So having a working relationship with the upstream autgor
>  trumps the social contract? 

Of course not, I had hoped to make that clear.

It is a matter of weighting a benefit for the quality of the
distribution ("Our Priorities are Our Users...", i.e. "Having a
working relationship with the upstream author" versus one for
dvdrecord ("... and Free Software).

Of course this oversimplifies matters, people buying cdrtools-prodvd
could be counted as financing the continous development of the GPL'd
cdrtools.

Has anybody even asked the author of dvdrtools if he'd be happy with
this change?
               cu andreas
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