2010/1/27 Xavier Chantry <chantry.xavier@xxxxxxxxx>: > On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 8:48 AM, Jan de Groot <jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 15:45 +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: >>>> Just to make it clear: >>>> >>>> There is not a single claim from a lawyer that confirms the claims >>>> from >>>> the hostile downstram packager. >>> >>> Looking through the thread on the fedora list they claim there's lawyers >>> confirmed it, but in the same thread you say they're not lawyers. >>> >>> Point is, the situation is unclear and all that is done is flaming. >>> People flame you for your weird license, you flame other people for >>> forking your software. >> >> Mr Schilling reminds me quite a bit of that Ion guy who was overly >> hostile and trollish. That clears up the situation just fine for me. >> > > Well I thought about that too, and I believe there is one huge > difference : tuomov explicitly imposed a lot of restrictions in > packaging, and apparently didn't want or didn't care at all if Arch > packaged it or not. > If it is packaged, it has to be under his terms. If it isn't, who > cares. His interest seemed to not have it packaged, as he believes > that would mean less problems and less bug reports for him. Sorry about the dumb question, but can you post a link for the tuomov restrictions? This is about cdrtools or cdrkit? > > Joerg on the other hand seems to care a lot about the inclusion of his > software in the official Arch repository. > Actually, I really wonder like pyther : "What is in this for him?". > The software is already in AUR, which every Arch users know and use. > According to him, wodim is completely broken, so surely the majority > of Arch users either notice it themselves or are told by other people, > and will switch to AUR cdrecord. This is about mainstream maintaining. Why the buggy software is actively maintained, precompiled with binaries for i686 and x86_64, and the good software is tagged as "unmaintained"? > Even if that's not the case (2 possibilities : wodim is not as broken > as Joerg pretends, or arch users are clueless), is Arch really > noticeable compared to the big distrib ? Well, Archlinux is a good distro with a very active crew, and it is a growing distro indeed. And now the maintainer of a big and famous piece of software is actively endorsing your software in that list! I think Archlinux is a noticeable distro indeed. > I am curious to know if anyone has pointers to estimates of linux > distribution userbase, but I doubt Arch would matter. > > And seriously, if the goal is world domination, making Debian/Ubuntu > an enemy is a very efficient way for failing. >
