On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 02:54:17PM +0200, Alexander Wirt wrote: > On Fri, 25 May 2018, Ian Jackson wrote: > > > > > > But, I find this response worrying. It makes me wonder whether Salsa > > is in fact really Free Software, for Debian. I don't want to suck > > energy out of the Salsa team, but: > > > > Free Software is not only a question of licences and legal > > permissions. Software is free for a particular user or group of users > > if those users can, in practice, exercise the four freedoms, including > > modifying it and using the modified version. (And yes, that means > > software freedom can be a matter of degree rather than an absolute, > > because it matters how easy it is to exercise one's freedoms.) > > > > IMO if we cannot, in practice, modify gitlab as used in Salsa, even to > > make simple changes, then it is not free software for us. > > Its not a matter of free software, but a matter of us having to support those > patches - which is something we don't want to do.
Not knowing who is "we", but the thing I want to says is Do not ask for a lighter load, but ask for more shoulders to carry the load. Groeten Geert Stappers -- Leven en laten leven
