[Gllug] LDP licence and Debian.

[David Damerell]

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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