On Sat, 01 Mar 2008 06:28:08 -0600 William Pitcock wrote: > WRONG. Every component of bmpx is licensed under a free license.
CC-v2.5-licensed works do not comply with the DFSG. So it's not true that every component of bmpx is free. > There > is absolutely no bloody need to penalize it because upstream chose CC > licensed icons. If it bothers you so much, find new icons. It bothers the Debian Project. Or, at least, it should, since the Project promised to abide by its Social Contract. > To me this is > not a bug worth pursuing because being *upstream friendly* is far more > important to me. I find it hard to imagine you being friendly to upstream, since you seem to have difficulties in being friendly to me and to people who politely report bugs in your package. > > Extreme positions like yours is why many upstreams are _hostile_ towards > Debian, and see Debian as a bunch of people who care more about bullshit > political issues than actually creating a good distro. Which is more > important? Overall code quality or politics? Software freedom is at least as important as technical quality. -- http://frx.netsons.org/progs/scripts/refresh-pubring.html New! Version 0.6 available! What? See for yourself! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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