On 02/16/2015 07:12, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > Am Montag 16 Februar 2015, 07:03:18 schrieb Mike Frysinger: >> except for two things: >> * that phrase is meaningless (legally speaking) and has been for a century >> [1] * the header explicitly stated GPL-2 license > > So you want to change a longstanding policy rule. Right. How about doing this > like everyone else and starting a discussion about it? You know, like, > talking > to people? > > Just silently committing stuff that goes against standing rules because you > disagree with the rules is not the way to go. It's childish and immature. > (Remember the ChangeLogs?)
Mike stated he made a mistake while making (what I assume to be) multiple changes across a variety of packages. I don't get a sense that he had an intentional desire to break the rules here, so let's not go pointing fingers until we know otherwise. We're human, and humans make mistakes sometimes. If anyone here is not human....well, then we have a whole different set of problems to discuss. As far as removing the ebuild goes, that was probably the correct course of action, because we Yanks love to make our legal code as bizzaringly complex as we think we can. Though, the mistaken code is still in CVS in the Attic -- does that itself present any problems that need to be addressed? That stated, communication is key and that was one of the parts that appears to have been missed in this instance. We don't have to like each other, but we do need to learn to work around our differences and disagreements for the good of the project. So, lets learn something from this and move along. -- Joshua Kinard Gentoo/MIPS ku...@gentoo.org 4096R/D25D95E3 2011-03-28 "The past tempts us, the present confuses us, the future frightens us. And our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast, terrible in-between." --Emperor Turhan, Centauri Republic
