Re: joke license (McRae General Public License)

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Hello, Justin.

On Tuesday, 04 August 2020 at 19:15, Justin W. Flory (he/him) wrote:
> On 8/4/20 9:42 AM, Richard Fontana wrote:
> > As for how to convince upstream, I can't help with that. At one time
> > Linux distribution licensing policy would have had a lot of influence
> > on upstream behavior, but I think that is much less true today.

Coincidentally, I found that Debian is also distributing uBlock Origin
and doing even more source clean-up as they're packaging an old version.
Maybe that'll help convince upstream. Thanks for your reply, Richard.

> Usually what works well for me is if you can collaborate/work with the
> upstream to build understanding of how a license can negatively impact
> the wider distribution of their work to a technical audience (Fedora/EL).
> 
> JSHint is a very contemporary example (like, shared yesterday after 7+
> years of blind-rewriting) you can use as a reference:
> 
>     https://twitter.com/JugglinMike/status/1290317065295929345
> 
>     http://mikepennisi.com/blog/2020/you-may-finally-use-jshint-for-evil/

Thanks for the story, it was an enlightening read. I will make one last
attempt and hope it's enlightening to this upstream, too.

Regards,
Dominik
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