Comment 7 for bug 154274
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| Lucas Nussbaum (lucas) wrote Re: Should reference Debian visibly | #7 |
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Hi,
Copy/paste from a comment in my blog ( http://
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mdke: There are two problems:
(1) the fact that Ubuntu doesn’t credit Debian, despite using 3/4 of Debian verbatim, and only slightly modifying another important number of packages.
(2) the fact that Ubuntu fails to properly credit the rest of the Free Software ecosystem.
My blog post was only about (1), but (2) is also a serious problem.
The Free Software ecosystem is not simple, and I don’t think that it’s a good idea to make it look simple, or you end up with people thinking Linux==Ubuntu. Ubuntu is only a small brick. Ubuntu doesn’t develop much software: Probably at least 99.9% of the LOC in Ubuntu were never touched by an Ubuntu developer. Ubuntu integrates software developed by various upstream projects, and that’s basically the only value added by Ubuntu.
Given the fact that Ubuntu is the first distribution for a lot of users, I think that it’s its responsibility to “teach” how the Free Software world works. And hiding “details” in release announcements is probably not the right way to do that.
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I second Paul's idea of a "technology" page, where relationships with other Free Software projects could be detailed.