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Debian DPL Threatens to Leave SPI Over Sun Java

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the honeymoon-is-over dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A three-week-long flame war in debian-devel over the new Java Distribution License has culminated in Anthony Towns, the newly elected Debian Project Lead, offering to separate Debian from its legal representative, SPI. This came as a response to SPI member John Goerzen's objections to the Debian project's interaction with Sun's legal team around the new JDL license without review from SPI's lawyers."

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  1. Weird Coincidence! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's why my wife left me!

    1. Re:Weird Coincidence! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      That's why my wife left me!

      She probably left you for a well-hung guy named Ubuntu, am I right?

  2. Debian DPL by Nighttime · · Score: 4, Funny

    So that would be the Debian Debian Project Leader?

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  3. Debian Stable by zaguar · · Score: 5, Funny
    Anthony Towns, the newly elected Debian Project Lead, offering to separate Debian from its legal representative, SPI.

    Bet they're regretting not running stable on Andy Towns now.

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  4. There's a riot in the bazaar! by linvir · · Score: 4, Funny

    There's a riot in the bazaar!
    Quick! Let's hide in the cathedral!

  5. Re:A lot of nerve by muellerr1 · · Score: 5, Funny
    And it seems that that is when the discussions on debian-flamware started
    flamware (flâm'wâr) adj. 1. Copyrighted software that is available free of charge with the condition that users harshly criticize each other and their respective mothers.
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