[Gllug] LDP licence and Debian.

[David Damerell]

On Monday, 10 Dec 2001, William Palfreman wrote:
>I've been thinking about starting an open source EPOS system for some
>time [0].  Something like that would probably have to be end-to-end, and
>the obvious base distribution would be Debian - it gives you a
>consistent reliable OS, with precisely predictable upgrade path for your
>customers.  But I wouldn't want something like that to be part of Debian
>proper,

If it was GPLed, how could you possibly prevent it from becoming as
much part of Debian as anything in 'main' is?

>as the democracy side could get you kicked off the project,

I've never noticed Debian having an ability to change upstream
maintainers. 

>anyway, Debian's non-commercial status makes a Cygnus style business
>impossible

Um? There'd be nothing to stop you from charging for modifications and
support.

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David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> flcl?

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