Re: [HS]Re: Ubuntu patches for DDs
On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 10:33:09AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 02:08:28AM +0100, Michael Banck wrote :
> > Canonical is not making this (filing an ITP and uploading/maintaining
> > the package in Debian) a policy for the packages their own employees
> > upload to Ubuntu alone, so I do not think it is reasonable to expect
> > this from Ubuntu (drawing the line between paid/volunteer work here)
> >
>
> [...] does that mean that there is some intellecutal property on the
> packaging work made by Canonical employees as part of their paid work
> [1], or that there is no time for giving the package to a developper
> who is willing to adopt it ?
There is no IP on the packaging, they are Debian packages like any other
and any Debian Developer is free to take them and upload them to Debian
(as the Utnubu [mind the spelling] project is trying to do)
The initial question, however, was why those packages are not uploaded
to Debian in the first place, or at least along with their uploads to
Ubuntu.
It boils down to that Canonical apparently does not pay or motivate
their employees to upload those packages to Debian, and the respective
persons do not have the time (or motivation) to do so in their free
time. Both is perfectly well, though perhaps not 100% in line with the
"giving back to Debian" mantra.
Don't get me wrong, I neither said nor implied that Canonical is doing
anything wrong here, their development is way more open than e.g.
Fedora's or SuSE's (as far as I can judge).
As for packages uploaded to Ubuntu by volunteers, that depends on the
person doing so. Some prefer Ubuntu to Debian (due to the nicer working
climate, friends they made there or just because they never got to know
Debian in the first place), some are very busy trying to keep up their
Ubuntu work and lack the time to care for their packages to enter Debian
as well and some try to maintain them in both distributions.
As far as Debian Science is concerned, it is always easier to work with
a rigid set of people who know you than to find a new sponsor for every
new package, so I guess MOTUScience and the various people packaging
science stuff for Debian should get along well.
Michael
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