Re: [LAU] Is there a newer, better "Jack Rack"?

Hi Hermann, On Sun, 8 Nov 2015 07:24:00 +0100, Hermann Meyer wrote: Several LAU subscribers are aware of it, but it's still politics regarding an interpretation of Debian's strict GNU policy, that applies double standards. Non-free provides e.g. the proprietary NVIDIA driver, this is absolutely ok. Assumed Linuxsampler's upstream would rename the license, and Len asked about this, then it should be possible to provide it by non-free too. DFSG isn't required for non-free. However, much more important is that e.g. Aeolus is available by the official repositories, but Aeolus comes with the exception that forks are unwanted http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.audio.devel/29966 you most likely remember the complete discussion, as Debian maintainers do too ;). IOW it depends to the Debian maintainers arbitrary political decision and not to a Debian policy. It's absolutely ok (by Debian's policy and for me too) that Debian provides Aeolus, but there's no valid reason to not provide Linuxsampler, since Linuxsampler is GPLed too, the GPL is valid, just the exception is null and void. So were exactly do you see a clear-cut course by the Debian maintainers? A rhetorical question ;), IMO this discussion is much too off-topic. Back to the topic, Carla e.g. from an Ubuntu PPA or from the Arch user repository can be provided with all features, assumed Carla should be provided by official Debian/Ubuntu repositories, it will be released without all features. This does cause problems for many less experienced Linux users, so users writing e.g. Ubuntu help pages and Wikis, requires to write howtos for those special distro versions. I'm an Arch Linux user, but I like to help Linux newcomers, so I prefer to provide Ubuntu and Ubuntu Studio support for this purpose. It would be nice to make things not that complicated. Other than you and me, a lot of computer users aren't geeks interested in computer politics. It's already hard for them to understand the meaning of LTS, the difference between an Ubuntu flavour and an Ubuntu derivative and how secure or insecure the usage of PPAs is, since terms like "dependency" or "soname" require a level of understanding, they don't want to have to use a user-friendly Linux distro. Last but not least, fortunately jack rack still is available for the current release of Ubuntu :). Regards, Ralf