[Gllug] LDP licence and Debian.

[Pete Ryland]

Actually, on a related topic, I'm looking to become a debian maintainer.
So... I was wondering if there are any debian maintainers that will be
around on Saturday at the installfest that could sign my gpg key?

Pete

On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 11:17:25AM +0000, David Damerell wrote:
> On Tuesday, 11 Dec 2001, William Palfreman wrote:
> >But if a package is developed within Debian itself, the whole package is
> >under Debian control and voting rules.
> 
> Yes and no. The version in Debian can be changed, but that's true of
> any package in Debian; and the original author can continue to develop
> their own version, but that's also true of any package in Debian.
> 
> >Yes, upstream or within.  I think being upstream is better, rather than
> >something being part of Debian as an internal project.  If you were
> >internal, and *not upstream* then the project would be under full Debian
> >control - otherwise I have badly misread the Debian constitution.
> 
> A GPLed project can't be under anyone's full control, really.
> 
> >So, although it may sound like I am having a go at Debian, I'm not.  
> >Cygnus may be able to operate within the FSF, but unless I have totally
> >misread the Debian Constitution that is completely forbidden - Debian is
> >wholly non-commercial and has only individual developers.  So Cygnus
> >style companies have to be upstream - right?
> 
> Um, Cygnus doesn't operate 'within' the FSF; it's just that a number
> of Cygnus developers are also FSF gcc developers, because its their
> job.
> 
> I don't see why someone's job could not be to be a Debian developer;
> there's nothing in the Social Contract that would prohibit it.
> 
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> David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> flcl?
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