On 15.09.2008 17:00, Patrice Dumas wrote:
I don't think advertising should be mentionned, nor removing the authors
I totally disagree, as both advertising and authors can lead to really big problems ("can of worms"):
- look at the enlightenment description -- it sounds a bit like "this is better then GNOME or KDE"; thus those people maintaining GNOME or KDE might start adding "no, our Desktop is in fact better than Enlightenment"; I'd say nobody want such a mess (even if it sounds unlikely that things really get that worse)
- Open-Source is about working together; thus most of the packages we ship have multiple authors; which ones do you mention? the one that started the project? the most important one? If the first: what if he has left ages ago? If the second: who maintains that list and decides?
And mentioning the author in one package could lead to other upstream authors to requests like "you guys mention the author in the description for package foo, but you don't mention *my name* in the description of bar, which contains software I wrote. That will get interesting when it comes to packages like the kernels, which has multiple thousand authors
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