On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 05:39:53PM +0000, MJ Ray wrote: > On 2004-03-05 15:53:13 +0000 Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> > wrote: > > >Yeah, but wasn't one of the argument of dropping non-free the fact > >that > >that would put pressure on upstreams of non-free packages to change > >their licence. [...] > > Not one of mine. I'm not sure what effect it has on that, but I > suspect a net zero. Maybe someone else will discuss that with you. I forget who said it first, but I believe it went: "Having software in non-free encourages the authors to change their licenses" "The opposite is at least as likely" [I don't think it has any real effect, either; I find both possibilities to be unlikely to the point of absurdity] -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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