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Hosting by Savannah is not a right

Hosting by Savannah is not a right

Posted Mar 24, 2007 20:43 UTC (Sat) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)
In reply to: Hosting by Savannah is not a right by xtifr
Parent article: No GPLv2-only projects on Savannah

how nice of them to clain other people's work.

you can choose to use other people's software in your distribution, but doing so doesn't make the development of that software 'part of your project'

if it was possible to do this then there would be _NO_ justification for trying to say GNU/Linux, the linux distribution (say Ubuntu) is just 'adopting' glibc, gcc, emacs, etc as part of their project and can now can ignore the people who develop the software.

if a distro were to do this the FSF would be up in arms, however, from the post about X11 they seem to feel that they operate under different rules and can do the same thing to the xfree86 project.


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