Re: Debian sucks // Ion may become (DFSG-) "non-free"

On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 09:49 +0000, Tuomo Valkonen wrote:
<snip>
> Sucks that the first question to everyone must be "which
> version and distro you're using"

"Which version" has always been a critical field for bug reports.  Even
if you expect everyone to compile from the latest source, they're still
not going to do it every day.

>  -- and it's usually the people who've 
> installed Ion from a distribution, that are using old unsupported 
> development snapshots. (Actually, maybe I should just stop supporting
> anyone who has not installed Ion from the official tarball. Let the 
> distros support their own lusers.)

My understanding is that a Debian maintainer must at the absolute
*minimum* provide first-line support to Debian users.

> I'm also considering extending the license (LGPL) with a "Distributor
> timely response clause", something like the following (D). It could
> make Ion "non-free", but I don't care about these idealists' definitions
> of freeness.
<snip>

Please don't do this.  We'd have to come up with some funny new name,
possibly involving the word "ice".

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
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