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Re: How to make Debian more attractive for users, was: Re: The number of popcon.debian.org-submissions is falling



Hi, Manoj:

On Thursday 22 July 2010 07:17:15 Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 21 2010, Will wrote:
> > Also I imagine that it helps that they have some kind of commercial
> > support behind their projects, whereas Debian has little/none of that.
>
>         One of the  issues I have faced in trying to get Debian
>  introduced in big companies is the percieved lack of a coherent
>  copyright; and company lawyers being uncomfortable with the concept
>  that most licesnse pass the dfsg, but we can't guarantee that, please
>  go read several thoudand individual license docs to figure out what you
>  are getting.

That's again about perception.  Debian has exactly the same copyright 
coherence (or lack of it) than SUSE, Red Hat, Ubuntu or even proprietary 
Unices.

Cheers.


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