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Re: DFSG#10 [was: Re: Draft Debian-legal summary of the LGPL]



On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 07:29:10PM +0100, Lewis Jardine wrote:
> >"Copyright FSF, Inc; available under the GPL with no warranty, 'show
> >license' for details", only when stdout is a tty, and a configuration
> >option that will eliminate it completely. Is that really so bad?
> >
> 
> "Alexander Zarochentcev (zam) wrote the high low priority locking code, 
> online resizer for V3 and V4, online repacker for V4, block allocation 
> code, and major parts of the flush code, and maintains the transaction 
> manager code. We give him the stuff that we know will be hard to debug, 
> or needs to be very cleanly structured.
> 
> BigStorage (www.bigstorage.com) contributes to our general fund every 
> month, and has done so for quite a long time." - Is this really so bad?

Not when I can replace it with "See /usr/share/doc/$package/CREDITS".

Reiser is firmly on the other side *because* this is prohibited.

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