On Sun, May 02, 1999 at 11:52:11PM -0400, Shaleh wrote:
> > As James well knows, this sparked quite an argument on the "secret" IRC
> > channel.
> >
> > I expect this to be a contentious issue, but I am in support of James's
> > action as a harbinger of (hopefully) a new, clarified contrib policy.
>
> I would also like to toss my name in the pot. As Branden eloquently states,
> we must make people aware of the consequences of their choices. Placing
> packages like TiK, *icq, etc. there help this goal.
There are at least two attempts to build a free icq server in progress at
the moment. One of them doesn't have much code and has been at it
awhile. The other was sparked by AOL essentially buying its only
competition in the instant messaging market and has an alpha quality
server under a free license.
Considering that you apparently didn't know that (and considering that
prior to james bringing up the problem he saw with TIK, _I_ didn't know
about the icq servers) neither one of us would be a good judge of whether
or not the GPL'd clients can go into main or not.
I argue that nobody else can claim to know that much about every single
project out there to make this sort of determination. Seeing that there
is nobody qualified to make such a decision, we shouldn't be making it.
--
Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org> Debian GNU/Linux developer
PGP: E8D68481E3A8BB77 8EE22996C9445FBE The Source Comes First!
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