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Re: Namespaces, was: summary of software licenses in non-free



On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 05:39:05PM +0000, MJ Ray wrote:
> On 2004-01-10 15:34:15 +0000 Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
> 
> >My advice?  Keep everything centralized in a
> >debian.org-hosted non-free section; life will be much, much,
> >***much*** simpler.
> 
> As you point out earlier in your email, we already have this problem. 
> I suspect it will get worse. As free software, we cannot force 
> everything to be centralised. We're not in the position when anyone 
> can argue to "keep everything centralised" because it isn't 
> centralised now. Some work to fix this before it hurts would be 
> wonderful, but I can't tell what the right solution is. Can the Origin 
> header help?

But you can say : everything not originating from debian server is
unpure and should not be touched :))

(hey, it is a joke, for those not noticing the smiley).

Friendly,

Sven Luther



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