Re: E

[Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>]

George Bonser wrote:
> I want to ask a general question about free software that was spawned by
> looking at that thread.
> 
> If the software is GPL, isn't debian free to change it in any way they
> want and put things anywhere they want as long as they (debian) provide
> the source code? Why is debian at the mercy of the author?

We're not really. It just that if the author flat out refuses to consider
your changes, it tends to be discouraging. Especially if the author is
making frequent releases and changing a lot of stuff in their code, so you
have to re-do your changes over and over again for each new version, because
your patches no longer apply cleanly. That gets to be a drag.

-- 
see shy jo


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