[TAG] [lgang] Debian & OPL

[Ben Okopnik]

On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 08:02:59AM -0800, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote:
> Hello,

Hi, Kapil -

(We had a great time hanging out with you in California; hope you
enjoyed yourself as well!)
 
> The reasons for the orphaning of the lg package are given in the
> following bug report:
> 	http://bugs.debian.org/321795

Blecch. Frankly, I expected better than that from Debian's maintainers
(perhaps naively.) Joerg Jaspert's comments are, at the very least,
poorly founded or based in ignorance ("Many people dislike them, so if
you want to keep them in the current way - have a thick skin"), and
sound like he had an agenda; I may be wrong, but the implications of his
statements certainly point that way.

If licensing was the issue, it wouldn't have taken much to email me and
find out what we would do. I'm at least somewhat annoyed that he didn't
even have the courtesy to do that.


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