Re: a modest proposal - Debian needs more $
>>>>> "Karl" == Karl E Jorgensen <karl@jorgensen.com> writes:
Karl> Hm. I thought that most of the debian servers ran on donated
Karl> hardware / bandwidth anyway. If I am correct, then I'm not
Karl> sure that it's right to=20 charge for it...
Natrually if you were charging then you'd start paying. And maybe
that wouldn't work well making this whole idea useless.
>> And people who download ISO's to sell should be paying a LOT.
Karl> I'm not sure about this one. The ISO's that I have spotted for sale (in
Karl> the UK) are quite cheap: About =A35 - =A320 for the full set, where the
Karl> more expensive ones include printed documentation.=20
Karl> I think that if anybody sold ISO's for profit (i.e. charged more than a
Karl> reasonable cost price for download, cd, burning, packaging etc), then=20
Karl> they would be in breach of the license. But I'm no legal expert, so=20
Karl> don't take my word for it.
I don't think it would be. I find it annoying that I can download an
ISO and turn around and sell it and not have to give 1 monetary unit
to Debian. I don't think it's reasonable. Maybe everybody else does,
in which case the argument is finished and I'll go write a check :-)
Oh and I'll file a bug report for good measure.
Karl> Allegedly, the boot-floppies team could do with some help...
Karl> Best of all (at least for non-maintainers ?) would probably be
Karl> to report bugs. And make sure that the bugs include
Karl> patches. Such high-quality bug reports should make the
Karl> maintainer's job easier.
Even if some sort of scheme could be worked out on the monetary side,
the task of deciding who gets what to do what is very non-trivial.
Brian
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