On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 03:41:08PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> I'm not at all surprised that Ubuntu is drifting into closed-source
> software, as this is a standard development path for a company based
> around free software.  I'm not upset.  I'm simply not interested, and
> consider that path to be entirely predictable.

Ubuntu, while its license policy is somewhat less strict than the DFSG, is
not drifting into closed-source software.  It's virtually unchanged since
the project's inception.

http://www.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/licensing

> And certainly, I would oppose blessing any closed-source toolset as part
> of Debian's infrastructure, regardless of its origins.

So would I.  I mean this in the same sense that I assume that you do,
meaning the sort of software which we see and work with directly.

-- 
 - mdz


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