[ncolug] Re: Mark Shuttleworth on Ubuntu Long Term Support
- From: David Fierbaugh <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: ncolug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2006 19:09:49 -0400
On Monday 05 June 2006 15:03, Chuck Stickelman wrote:
> I say that the one who invents the wheel owns the rights to the wheel
> and if someone else wants to change it to the point it's no longer
> compatible with the original MUST publish that their product isn't the
> original. An example would have been that Ubuntu should have called
> their packages .ubu or something, anything other than .deb.
If the design of the wheel is open-source, then others can extend and change
the wheel in any way they want that is in accordance with the particular
license of said wheel. Whether or not it is the best course of action is
personal opinion, and nothing more.
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