Re: web hosting providers' modified .debs

2008-01-25 Thread jidanni
FW GPLv3 makes it pretty clear that Dreamhost can take your rights away So all that effort of writing Free Software and the result is there is Johnny, sitting at the shell prompt, unable to see the source code to anything behind it if they decide to close it. I bet the same goes with OLPC then.

Re: web hosting providers' modified .debs

2008-01-24 Thread jidanni
Dear legal beagles, all I know is if one day I couldn't do [EMAIL PROTECTED] dpkg -l apt-get --print-uris ... wget ... to examine the .debs that were Debian debs but slightly modified by Dreamhost (or other such web host), well that would mean the whole Free Software concept had come to a

web hosting providers' modified .debs

2008-01-23 Thread jidanni
Just curious, e.g., dreamhost.com modifies Debian .debs to produce their hosting environment, which we Dreamhost users then use on our shell accounts there. If I can do $ cat file then I should always also be able to cat the source (.deb) to that same cat, no? (I can at present.) Yes I read