On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 08:45:30AM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 02:06:12PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > The way we are doing it, by removing non-free from the debian archive in > > hope for the upstream authors releasing their software in a more free > > licence, could also be seen as an unclean racket to try to pry away > > their software from them under conditions they choose not to. And you > > are speaking of ethicality ? > > While I agreed with most of the message you wrote (the one I'm responding > to), I disagree with the above. There are real problems with dropping > non-free, but I don't think this particular example is one we should > care about.
Yeah, let's contemplate it only in the non-ethical discussion. Still it shows the thing the other way around, and i do believe that some of the upstream authors will feel this way if we are going to approach them with a stick (removing their software from non-free), instead of taking the carrot approach (discussion with them so their software can move to main). > We should have good relations with the authors of software we distribute, > and we should benefit them. However, our first priority is our users > and the free software community. Yep, i agree. I repeat the above was an argument for the ethically inclined discussion, which i believe is a quite insulting pose to take to both the upstream and maintainers of non-free software. Friendly, Sven Luther
