On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:16:57 +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: > David Paleino wrote: > > On debian-italian@ there's a thread [1] with people sponsoring gNewSense, > > goBuntu and the such, claiming they're "real free software" > > ...gnewsense is so pathetic. > > their build scripts to put the images together is a derivated work of > live-helper. they forked live-helper (which was called live-package at > that time, fwiw), ripped off all my copyright notices, and put their own > names in it. when i was asking them to respect copyright notices, they > said, that they have kept GPL boiler plates since they had to, but were > unaware that they also have to leave the 'Copyright (C) Daniel Baumann > <daniel@debian.org>' lines aka author information, and they never fixed it. Does RMS know all this? I don't think he'd support such kind of behaviour :) Removing author information is *never* a good thing. *Never*. -- . ''`. Debian maintainer | http://wiki.debian.org/DavidPaleino : :' : Linuxer #334216 --|-- http://www.hanskalabs.net/ `. `'` GPG: 1392B174 ----|---- http://snipr.com/qa_page `- 2BAB C625 4E66 E7B8 450A C3E1 E6AA 9017 1392 B174
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