Glenn Maynard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 05:47:18AM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: >> Because saying "We used to think that this sort of license provided you >> with all necessary freedoms, but now we've decided that it doesn't" >> looks astonishingly bad? > > So the real reason not to fix it is to save face by not admitting mistakes. > I expected better from Debian; don't ask me why.
What mistakes? Pretty much the entire free software community believes that patch-clause licenses are acceptable. Why do you think that they're not? -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]