On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 12:33 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > > > OpenSource and Free Software are not the same thing. > Yes, but neither OpenSource nor Free Software are identical to the OSI > definitions, nor are they identical to an individual's notion of "open", > "free" or even "libre" - These all are political labels, which often are > being abused. Right, agreed. So we'll not use them anymore in this discussion. Moving on. > Well, firstly. this is my personal experience, secondly one thing is a > fact: The majority of OpenSource developers has a university/educational > institution background. Ok, my personal experience differs. Let's move on from this too, since it's really immaterial to the conversation. > > Seriously, what benefit would it have? > The same as FE has over 3rd party repositories: > > Same server infrastructure, build system infrastructure, better package > coordination/less package conflicts (c.f. Axel's complaint on zaptel and > friends), same packaging standards, ... The only thing I really see as a benefit is perhaps the same server infrastructure. Plague is open source, so a 3rd party repo can use that just fine (I'm part of a local project that does). The packaging standards can be adopted by anyone. Coordination/conflicts... only because it would the become required for maintainers of FE which places more steps on them. > > The downside would be: Probably endless quarrels on "legality", more > bureaucracy and ... "less freedom" :( Well, to paraphrase a conversation I had with a few people yesterday, you have to draw the line somewhere. The "no use restrictions" is a reasonable one. josh -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
