On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 06:59:09PM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote:
> Bas Zoetekouw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Hi Jérôme!
> >
> > You wrote:
> >
> >> Bas, you disgust me! CCing RMS is not our business! If we consider that
> >> we should not package it, then we don't, _end-of-story_.
> >
> > Well, I think mldonkey, how useful their program may be, seems actually
> > to be abusing the FSF's infrastructure for a non-free project. I think
> > we owe it to the FSF to at least notify them of this.
>
> Debian does not owe anything to the FSF. We have to mind our
> own business which is to decide if we package something or
> not. Full stop.
Jerome, I haven't notified the Savannah people because Debian owes something
to the FSF but rather because they were violating their own principles and
me as a companion thought that aiding them was the correct thing.
On the other hand the operating system Debian distributes is mostly
based on software from the FSF. I personaly do owe them my gratitude.
And of course it concerns to Debian wether we package mldonkey or not.
--
Robert Millan
"5 years from now everyone will be running
free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5"
Andrew S. Tanenbaum, 30 Jan 1992
