On Mon, Jul 13, 2026 at 10:30:44PM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: [snip] > My point earlier in the thread was that by replacing (strongly) copyleft > software by non-copyleft software (and I include weak-copyleft in the > non-copyleft category) in Debian there is a risk the technical > excellence of Debian will be used to subjugate users, and that > eventually this could erode the foundation for why Debian is technically > excellent in the first place. [snip] > I think a Debian core without any remaining (enforcable strongly) > copyleft components a not unlikely scenario in the next ~10 years. The > move towards that has been happening for many years already, using > various arguments including changing to "better software". bash, gawk, > wget, libgcrypt, info, etc. The market forces are there to promote > this.
Not commenting on your general point here, just... again, please stop using libgcrypt as an example for that: most of it is weak-copyleft by your definition above (LGPL-2.1+), and some of the most-often-executed parts (e.g. some SHA-* implementations for amd64) are even under a BSD-3-Clause license. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] PGP key: https://www.ringlet.net/roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115 C354 651E EFB0 2527 DF13
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