bruce@va.debian.org writes:
 > I don't even know what the fsb list is. Should I be on it?

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 > From: "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>
 > > The restriction that source code be distributed as official
 > > versions + diffs makes it difficult to replace the maintainer of
 > > a program unwillingly.  Such software eventually loses its development
 > > momentum.  For example, we would not have {Free,Open,Net}BSD today
 > > if 386BSD had had such a restriction.
 > 
 > Note that this is not a restriction. It says that a license can do this,
 > not that a license has to.
 > You can argue that one out with Eric, it's his favorite part.
 > I don't care about it much, nobody has had to use it under Debian to date.

It's necessary in order to call qmail "Open Source".

 > > Question for the "Open Source" folks: have  you consulted
 > > your legal counsel yet?
 > 
 > We did a trademark search. We can get the trademark.
 > Regarding defending it, we can not defend it as well as a meaningless
 > word like "Debian", that is clear. "Freed" rather than free offers little
 > improvement in this respect, it is the past tense of the same meaning.

But it loses the zero-cost meaning.  Slaves were freed, but you never
get freed samples in the mail.

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