On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 12:25:39PM +1000, Martin Pool wrote: > "We don't care what the author wants, we have the legal right to > change what we like" is not a good message to send. Even if you don't
Thankfully, Debian isn't sending this message. Hans would apparently like people to believe that, but Hans is wrong. > A little cooperation is needed. Yes, but you should be saying this to Hans, not Steve. > There is some validity to #152547; in some circumstances having a big > banner at startup is inconvenient. However just cutting it out is not > a good way to resolve the bug. The maintainer made a mistake here. > It ought to be obvious that removing a author/sponsor notice would be > likely to offend. It's not obvious. Removing a sponsorship notice is something I'd do without a second thought; it's nothing more than advertisement and it's just as annoying to me as a banner ad. (Removing author notices is more objectionable, but irrelevant; it's only sponsorship notices we're talking about here, I believe. Hans certainly hasn't bothered to say what he's talking about, though, so we're all guessing anyway. If it was up to me, I'd remove the package--probably undistributable--and point people at XFS. -- Glenn Maynard
