Joerg Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So, how about the following (and please read it completly before you
> answer, it contains multiple options):
I am sorry, but I cannot believe that you like to make serious proposal
with the text you wrote.
Let me make a proposal that makes sense for now and the future:
1) Throw out Eduard Bloch. He has been the biggest problem for Debian
in the past years. Find a new maintainer with the following properties:
- Some basic knowledge in C
- Some basic knowledge in software engineering and interfaces
between kernel and userland
- Some basic knowledge in CD/DVD writing
- Some basic knowledge in SCSI
- Some basic knowledge in software quality assurance
- Able and willing to cooperate
2) Update to a recent cdrtools source, do not hide interesting
new features from Debian users and (this may be even more important to
Linux users) workarounds for recent Linux kernel
self-incompatibilities.
3) Remove the unneeded Debian changes as the unmodified original source
does not need any changes in order to work correctly.
4) If someone at Debian likes to work on enhancements, make sure that
these changes are done in a way that does not contradict the current
planned behavior and make sure that the quality of the code is
sufficient to allow integreation. Read the file:
ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/CONTRIBUTING
and follow the instructions in that file.
5) Find someone to read the original GPL text in depth who did not yet
read the wrong FSF GPL FAQ. Let this person be prepared and willing
to have a serious fact based discussion in case that there are still
any issues to discuss.
6) Find someone to read the original CDDL text in depth and in addition
read the DFSG text. Let this person be prepared and willing to have a
serious fact based discussion in case that there are still problems
to understand why the CDDL meets all requirements of the DFSG.
Do not try to raise conditions that are not written down in the DFSG.
Be prepared to have a serious discussion with people from Sun who
are waiting for such a discussion and are willing to explain how the
CDDL has to be understood.
Try to accept that the CDDL is a first class OS license and treat it
in the same open way as you treat the GPL and the BSDl.
7) Finally: learn that I am spending a lot time on cdrtools and on my other
OSS activities.
Understand that I am neither willing to waste my time with useless
discussions with Debian people nor being forced to give up useful
ways of defending me against malicious users or distributors of my code.
Believe me that it does not sound serious when reading again and again
silly things like "we need to fork cdrecord...". I am now working
for 10 years on cdrecord, I am now working for exactly 20 years on
libscg and I am working for 24 years on star. Many people did claim to
start a fork on my tools, nobody did yet even come to a serious first
step in this direction not speaking about serious work on extensions...
8) Understand that all my software is highly portable and that it is not
acceptable to chage it in a way that make them behave different on
different platforms.
9) Help me with defending against silly artificial limitations in the Linux
kernel that makes life on Linux hard.
Jörg
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