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>power maintainers hold over someone else's software There's some subtle assumptions about ownership in this comment that aren't accurate, insofar as free and
by YPPH 2y ago
>power maintainers hold over someone else's software
There's some subtle assumptions about ownership in this comment that aren't accurate, insofar as free and open source software is concerned.
FOSS software is not "someone else's" software. They may own the trade mark, but by releasing the software under a FOSS licence, they lose the right to control the direction the software may take. I'm free to copy it, edit it, and redistribute it as I see fit. So are you. So is Debian.
- parasti 2y agoThat's besides the point. You can do whatever with the software, but it gets muddy when you then release it under the same name as the original. That name may not be trademarked, but it is still not yours to use.
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- YPPH 2y agoThis simply is irrelevant. A FOSS licence fully permits what Debian has done here. So, that is beside the point.