[wellylug] Cdrtools - why do Linux distributions create bad forks?

[Daniel Pittman]

Sam Vilain <sam at vilain.net> writes:
> Daniel Pittman wrote:
>> In any case: the short answer is that they created their own fork (which
>> isn't actually nearly as bad as Jörg suggests) is that personality
>> conflicts with the maintainer resulted in their decision that a fork was
>> lest costly than trying to work with the upstream.
>
> Jörg now has an award in his honour, recently awarded to the author of
> ion.  http://mako.cc/copyrighteous/20070919-00

I don't object to the way Jörg handles his project as strongly as many
people seem to -- he has a right to do whatever he pleases -- though I
can understand how he rubs people the wrong way.

I actually completely support the author of Ion being able to license
his software any way he pleases within the constraints of the conditions
the code was released under.[1]

If the maintainer wants to be an ass ^W^W^W try some non-standard
license then more power to them.  I fully support freedom of choice, and
I especially support it for the people who are writing the code.

(but they may still be an ass. ;)

Regards,
        Daniel

(and it sucks as the end user if your preferred software vanished.)

Footnotes: 
[1]  That is, no retroactive changes to licensing on past release,
     adherence to the law, respect for copyright ownership in license
     changes, etc.

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