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To be fair, from a packagers perspective, it's hell. https://wiki.debian.org/IntroDebianPackaging https://wiki.debian.org/IntroDebianPackaging http://www.debi
by anon3_ 11y ago
To be fair, from a packagers perspective, it's hell.
https://wiki.debian.org/IntroDebianPackaging https://wiki.debian.org/IntroDebianPackaging
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/index.en.html http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/index.en.html
Compare that to gentoo / archlinux / BSD ports.
If they actually simplified* their system and made it permissively licensed and POSIX portable, maybe people would bite.
But GPLv3 is just a way to make suckers develop for Canonical for free - at the end of the day - you have no rights over your own contributions and they have 100% ownership.
- vezzy-fnord 11y agoGPLv3 makes no such impact. Now, if they had a CLA (which Canonical's projects infamously often do), you could make that argument.
- anon3_ 11y agoGPLv3 makes no such impact. Now, if they had a CLA (which Canonical's projects infamously often do), you could make that argument. http://www.canonical.com/projects/directory http://www.canonical.com/projects/directory The following projects are covered by Canonical’s contributor agreement. If you want to contribute to any of the projects below, please contact the project contacts listed in the third column. Sanppy:: (sic), snappy
- davidgerard 11y ago> But GPLv3 is just a way to make suckers develop for Canonical for free - at the end of the day - you have no rights over your own contributions and they have 100% ownership. This is the text of the GPLv3: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html It doesn't contain anything of the sort.