On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 01:04:56AM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > You can assert a moral right to control how your work is used, or you > can write Free Software. You don't get to do both at once. If Hans > wants to assert his moral rights, we will certainly respect that; as > I've said, many Debian developers are also software authors themselves, > so it certainly shouldn't be said that we don't recognize the value of > our upstreams' efforts.
Of course, the maintainer would very likely have been willing to put a more appropriately-sized notice in the program, and it would still be distributed by Debian so long as it wasn't a requirement. After all, maintainers can be reasonably expected to abide by upstream's wishes (within reason), even wishes that don't have the force of a requirement. -- Glenn Maynard
