Am 18.11.2011 21:11, schrieb Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso: > Please accept my apology again if I have upset you personally. I would > like to make amends and not make you feel like I am the only one who > is correct. - Jordi G. H. I am sorry, let us keep it civilized with that I also address myself, I violated my own terms to behave not in a personal injuring way, I apologize for doing that. There are these days.
Back to the topic. I think it is clear from what I originally wrote that there are good reasons not to host many (if any at all) packages which interface to non-free software. To explicitly summarize my thoughts: 1) it is not really the right place where it should be (it should be part of the service of the software vendor of the non-free software of course respecting the license restrictions which come from interfacing to a GPL software) 2) it cannot be guaranteed that such packages have a reasonable quality if not directly provided by the vendor since the software it interfaces to is out of control of a person who does not work for the vendor and is likely to fail sooner or later when the software it interfaces to is changed in an incompatible way 3) contradicts the idea to encourage the use of free software also for third party packages (as far as free software exists for the use case under question) I did not look at all packages in the non-free section to judge if there is one which makes sense to be hosted since there is simply no free alternative which can be found or not. What I would see as a cut of the freedom of the user would be if packages are somehow simply deleted which are not hosted anywhere else and which then would be lost for potential users without looking in advance for a place where they are better served. Hope that makes it clear. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list Octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
