Re: unbreaking LibreOffices tests on at least release architectures

Rob Landley <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.ports.mips
Message-ID <53d7f6e6-b6b7-c3e3-a25f-7e8c78e6f048__40624.2566926935$1687125314$gmane$org@landley.net>
On 6/18/23 14:58, Rene Engelhard wrote:
>> Three years ago Samba maintainer Jeremy Allison lamented that "Both GPLv3 and
>> the AGPL have been rejected soundly by most developers" and talked about how he
>> regretted the move and the damage it had done to the project,
>> https://archive.org/details/copyleftconf2020-allison
> 
> Can we please talk about the actual issue at and - that is not the license.

The issue is the number of developers engaging with this package have declined
to the point problems have gone unnoticed and unfixed for a long time.

>> How long has the problem you're treating as a crisis been brewing?
> 
> Far too long, as I said it was swept under the carpet for too long.

Because the developers went away.

Rob
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