Nicolas Williams wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 08:14:55AM -0400, James Carlson wrote:
>
>> I think the ARC would be derelict in its duty if it simply said "FOSS
>> means no expectation of source change." That may be true of some
>> projects, but certainly not of others, and the ARC should not be
>> presuming one magic answer for all cases.
>>
>
> Hmmm. Let me try again.
>
> For standalone utilities like Unison I don't agree. The ARC can
> reasonably ask lots of things (like that it be Secure By Default), but
> there's a fine line between asking for reasonable changes and killing
> the project.
>
> I think for libraries the ARC can and should be a lot more inquisitive,
> and potentially require many more changes.
>
> For core OS features the ARC should treat FOSS as any other Sun project.
>
How does the consumer (in this case the user) know whether unison is a
"core OS feature", or some integration of perhaps lesser-quality or
otherwise inferior FOSS?
-- Garrett
