John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This happpened to BSD. It continues to happen with it. Commercial > interests steal the code (which they are permitted to do), make it > proprietary, and never help out the original authors with code or give > out their code. It is an open invitation for people to abuse the > system. Even Microsoft has done so. > > WE MUST NOT ALLOW people to do that to Debian.
Debian does not determine the licenses of software in the distribution, so I am not sure how it has any control over this matter at all. Save a few, narrowly scoped programs like dpkg, which are already under the GPL, Debian does not make software, it packages and distributes it. > Please, people, if you have not thought through the ramifications of > what you are trying to do, take a step back and look at the big > picture first. Why not try to help the free software community > instead of hurt it? I don't see how Debian/FreeBSD would do anything to jeopardize existing Debian ports. It may suck up the time of some developers, but since all developers are volunteers, that is their own perogative. It will not force any Debian software to go with a BSD license, or require that software packaged for it follows the BSD license. -- Craig Brozefsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Free Scheme/Lisp Software http://www.red-bean.com/~craig "riot shields. voodoo economics. its just business. cattle prods and the IMF." - Radiohead, OK Computer, Electioneering
