On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 12:50:15PM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote:
>
> > On Freitag, 24. Februar 2012, Karl Goetz wrote:
> > > Contributors *to upstart* need to agree to the canonical contribution
> > > agreement, I'm not sure what gives you the idea that all daemon
> > > maintainers will fall in that category.
>
> [Holger Levsen]
> > still.
> >
> > a blocker.
[...]
> Also, the only practical way this differs from the situation with
> software from either the Free Software Foundation or the Apache
> Software Foundation seems to be that, oddly, more people think
> Canonical is evil than think the FSF and ASF are evil.
It's not so much a question of 'is upstream evil' (if so, why are we
packaging this software?) but 'could upstream turn evil'. I'm far
from agreeing with the FSF on many issues, and I don't really believe
in the value of copyright assignment. But I also recognise that the
FSF is bound by its non-profit status and broad membership in ways
that a for-profit company like Canonical is not.
Ben.
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