On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 09:52:03PM +0000, Rui Miguel Seabra wrote:
> Fortunately, Fedora Core's goals do not allow for unfair conditions
> placed upon it's users.
I consider it unfair that you feel content demanding a provider to give
you full re-distributions rights to code that you did not write, nor did
you contract to have written.
Fedora Core's goals cannot be illegal goals. If Fedora Core requires the
right to patch source code, and distribute the patched source code and
binary in full (as it seems to require out of necessity, more than as a
project goal), and the author does not grant this privelege, then Fedora
Core *shall not* include the software.
If, on the other hand, Fedora Core expands (as it seems the plans
include) to allow the code author's to submit their own SRPM/RPM
packages, then it may be feasible, and sensible to allow products
such as Tiny DNS to be included in Fedora Core. You wouldn't have to
feel like you were doing something wrong, the author of Tiny DNS
wouldn't feel like control of development was being taken away from
him, and it is possible that *everybody* would be happy.
Or, you could keep shouting senseless demands on this mailing list,
a place where nobody can legally do anything about the situation...
mark
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