Code written by the wrong people

[Ben Finney]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org> writes:

> On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 8:52 PM, Ben Finney <ben+bazaar at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
>
> > Please, Bazaar developers, convince Canonical that your project is
> > being hurt by this silliness, and move to the “inbound == outbound”
> > copyright policy of the vast majority of successful free-software
> > projects <URL:https://lwn.net/Articles/414051/>.
>
> That's a *terrible* reason for do anything. "If two million penguins
> do a stupid thing, it is still a stupid thing."

The paragraph you chose to quote, above, was not giving reason. The
reason given was in most of the message that you snipped and chose not
to respond to.

To put it more briefly, then: Code which people want in Bazaar, which
Canonical already has all the legal permission they need to include and
distribute, is under a cloud of uncertainly solely because of this
self-imposed obstacle.

That's an argument for removing the obstacle, and it's one which the
Bazaar developers, as people being inconvenienced by this policy and
with presumably more influence than outsiders, are in a position to
present to Canonical.

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Ben Finney