Re: upstream does not want debian to ship their free software
On Sat, Mar 06, 2021 at 09:01:50AM +0100, Joost van Baal-Ilić wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 05, 2021 at 05:19:01PM +0100, Drew Parsons wrote:
> > On 2021-03-05 16:52, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > > On Fri, Mar 05, 2021 at 09:52:47AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> > > >
> > > > It seems unlikely that upstream will have changed their mind, it
> <snip>
> >
> > So there's no legal (or technical) reason to not package, just
> > the social reason that doing so will gain the ire of the author.
> >
> > There is precedence: the author of cdrtools was extremely hostile to
> > packaging,
> > https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/08/msg00113.html
> > https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/08/msg00320.html
> > https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/08/msg00653.html
> >
> > Eventually we had to just drop cdrtools (and consequently xcdroast)
> > https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/08/msg00775.html
>
> And there was
> https://www.jwz.org/blog/2016/04/i-would-like-debian-to-stop-shipping-xscreensaver/
> , 5 years ago. We decided to ship it anyway.
After all it is libre software.
Groeten
Geert Stappers
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