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Re: Possible Partnership

> Good day, everyone!
> 
> 
> There is a company starting (coincidentally here in Ontario) that is
> going to be providing a linux distribution based on Debian and KDE.
> 
> What I would propose is a partnership between them and us such that they
> can take over most/all of contrib & non-free and any work they do for
> "free" packages gets sent straight back to us.  Even without this, though,
> the partnership could still be beneficial.
> 
> It is not their desire to sell a proprietary system (like Caldera), but
> rather one that includes some software that Debian currently classifies as
> "non-free".

Good news, just one question:


I'm not completely sure why they would want to single out "non-free".
Why not just make seperate releases for packages where the company
thinks they can make a better package (or faster bugfix or whatever)
than the current debian release? 

Also, I maintain gs (in the core distr), and gs-aladdin (in non-free).
Would that mean I would have to give up gs-aladdin? Again, to me it
makes much more sence if they were to keep the debian release of both
packgase, and, if they feel they can improve eighter of them, just
release an improved version of that (or both) packages. Then, if
I later agree with their changes, I'd just copy their changes into
the "ordinary" (core+non-free) debian release.


-- 
joost witteveen     joostje@debian.org
    
I came, I saw, ..., well, it wasn't free so I left again. (LUA, 1988)