On 18 Jul 2002, Jeff Licquia wrote: > > Thanks, but no thanks. I do not want you to have this freedom. I do > > not want you to send me these "maybe altered" weights. I do not want > > you to be able to send them to anybody. I abhor the thought that my > > business associates, colleagues or anybody else might use your weights > > UNKNOWINGLY. You have the right to distribute any weights as long as > > you call them deb-kilograms or Pickwickian kilograms -- but please do > > not meddle with the standard weights. > > This is a restriction the Debian Project can live with.
We can? I guess this is the danger of analogies. We can live with a restriction that an altered "kilogram" program may not have it's default invocation named "kilogram". I hope we would not accept a package which specified that any derived work's output may not refer to 950g as a kilogram. Here's another analogy: Would you accept a mapping program that specified that Taiwan may not be shown in a color different from China? Even if the authors only wanted to ensure that all users got consistent output on different distributions? -- Mark Rafn [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://www.dagon.net/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
