On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 09:49 +0000, Tuomo Valkonen wrote: <snip> > Sucks that the first question to everyone must be "which > version and distro you're using"
"Which version" has always been a critical field for bug reports. Even if you expect everyone to compile from the latest source, they're still not going to do it every day. > -- and it's usually the people who've > installed Ion from a distribution, that are using old unsupported > development snapshots. (Actually, maybe I should just stop supporting > anyone who has not installed Ion from the official tarball. Let the > distros support their own lusers.) My understanding is that a Debian maintainer must at the absolute *minimum* provide first-line support to Debian users. > I'm also considering extending the license (LGPL) with a "Distributor > timely response clause", something like the following (D). It could > make Ion "non-free", but I don't care about these idealists' definitions > of freeness. <snip> Please don't do this. We'd have to come up with some funny new name, possibly involving the word "ice". Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Make three consecutive correct guesses and you will be considered an expert.
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