OK. I understand that a misundertand can complicate any relationship.
Specially, if are well-made rumours.
However, many times we can do choices that even can affect many important
relationships and the reputation of projects like Libreboot. I've been
whitness of this kind of issues; specially, with XScreensaver case, which
Zawinski acted like a douchebag stalking to the Debian developers to keep the
nagware of "update now or GTFO", stuff that fortunately has not been
accomplished.
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2016/04/i-would-like-debian-to-stop-shipping-xscreensaver/
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=819703 (please check the
flame replies)
http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/x/xscreensaver/xscreensaver_5.30-1+deb8u2_changelog
I hope that the next time that any software developer wants to judge to
anyone about the contribution and/or authoring of source code, please read
this message that I want to quote:
"The situation is very simple in fact. Somebody just lost the ground and
cannot see the difference between the free software authorship, credit
for it and property rights no more. He accepts the free license but in a
some strange one-way fashion: to get the freedom for himself and to take
it away from the others. Just like terrorists do. Setting timebombs and
objecting others to disable those bombs is not only the violation of
free software license as up to me, but also it spoils the idea of the
free software itself. Now I see how great is the idea behind the GPL."
Melleus @ message #200 in bug #819703 of Debian bug report logs
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=819703;msg=200
Thanks by understand us.
Eliot.
