Michael Scheidell wrote:
On 4/21/10 1:25 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse quite obviously feels that they have
captured enough fishes in the ocean and are making plenty of money now
and so do not require all of the free advertising that inclusion of
their source in Debian gives them. Quite obviously they complained and
their stuff was withdrawn as a result.
'Quite obviously'? Gee, since I know a lot more of the background
information on this, I would challenge your evidence.
The DCC author would welcome Debian replacing the old, broken code with
something new.
He personally supported the efforts of the FreeBSD ports maintainers in
making sure that current DCC code is in the FreeBsd Ports tree.
He is currently working on re-writting the DCC.pm for SA 3.3.x to make
it faster and more stable.
Or is it your debian folks just forgot to update it?
As was previously posted (by someone else) DCC is free for most
everyone, including ISP's who use it in their mail servers to protect
their own clients.
For most everyone is the key point here. IMHO software in Debian's main
repository is required to be "free" for really everyone, amongst other
things you can lookup in the DFSG.
Open Source is not really open if you disallow certain people or
companies to use and modify it in the public.
Regards
Racke
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