On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 07:46:36AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote : > > > >I appologise for possibly feeding a troll, but does that mean that there > > I'm sorry Michael is certainly no troll at all, but one of a view very > active Debian developers who care for scientific packages.
Dear Andreas and Michael, I am really sorry for the misunderstanding: by "troll", I was referring to a thread of discussion, as we usually do in french. Not to Michael. > >is some intellecutal property on the packaging work made by Canonical > >employees as part of their paid work [1], or that there is no time for > >giving the package to a developper who is willing to adopt it ? > > You are asking whether Ubuntu is violating Free Software principles? Actually, not. I was directly asking wether Canonical had an IP (intellectual property) policy or not. As an academic scientist, I find that kind of question more and more important: we are moving from a "who owns the credit for the discovery?" to a "who owns the IP on the discovery?" paradigm. This makes me curious about how IP is managed in companies which, like Canonical, put a strong emphasis on "freedom". There are unfortunately a lot of pressures to limit freedom - one just has to see how many scientific packages are in the "non-free" to understand that the academic world is not free of them neither. Best, -- Charles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
