Re: Fwd: reiser4 non-free?

[Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>]

Joe Wreschnig wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 12:54, Hans Reiser wrote:
>  
>
> > When you go to the opera, they don't come on stage and say buy XYZ, but 
> > they do say something prominent on the brochure like "we thank the 
> > generous ABC corporation for making this evening happen".  Debian should 
> > follow that model, it works and is morally right to do.
> >    
>
> This is a very good analogy.
>
> Debian will happily print your credits in our "brochure"
> (/usr/share/doc/*reiser*/copyright), which is an optional read for
> people who want to see the opera (use the ReiserFS software). We'll even
> do it prominently, all caps, whatever. But we will not walk out on stage
> (print messages during use of the software) to advertise your
> filesystem.
>  
Reiser4 prints them when you make a new filesystem, not when you use the 
filesystem.  We are not as aggressive as you imagine.  While I do 
personally think that boot time credits should be returned to existence, 
I am not asking for that.

> We do follow that model, it does work, and it is the right thing to do.
>  
Operas put the credits where they get seen.  Where a contributor is 
really significant to it happening, a theater group (little league 
baseball game, etc.) will mention on stage sometimes.