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Debian DPL Threatens to Leave SPI Over Sun Java

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday June 6, 2006 @07:42PM 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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Debian Stable by zaguar · 2006-06-06 20:05 · 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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Re:Weird Coincidence! by Anonymous Coward · 2006-06-06 20:52 · Score: 5, Funny

That's why my wife left me!

She probably left you for a well-hung guy named Ubuntu, am I right?
Re:A lot of nerve by muellerr1 · 2006-06-07 00:22 · 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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