Re: An (flamebait ?) idea to preserve debian on sparc32...
So you don't use apache, Xfree, or anything else with a similar license?
That's a rediculous argument. Did you submit any code to libc or the
linux kernel that really makes this a valid point? I can only see this
as being a problem with people that do development for such software.
Using it, has no bearing on GPL/BSD licensed code, since your use will
not change (you get the source, and it's free to all). Just because
someone else can reuse the code that you had nothing to do with, in a
way that is closed source, is irrelevant to your use of it.
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 02:18:35PM +0200, mag wrote:
> 2005-07-27, sze keltez?ssel 10.23-kor Romain Dolbeau ezt ?rta:
>
> > So my idea is: why not go over to a kernel and libc that actually
> > support all of the above ? Namely, the NetBSD kernel...
> >
>
> I am free software fundamentalist, so using BSD licenced code
> is only marginally acceptable for me.
>
> Also, I think this solution have greater support burden than the
> linux kernel way, where only some packages need special attention,
> one of them is the kernel which I am used to custom-build anyway.
> You would need to maintain buildd, cope with bugs in the all the
> user space related to bsdisms, maintain special packages, etc.
>
> I guess having a special repository with only the packages where
> "upstream debian" is not acceptable is the Debian way to go, if
> there are enough resources even for that.
>
> I hope the above did not flame;)
>
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