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Máirín is a senior principal interaction designer at Red Hat. She is passionate about software freedom and free & open source tools, particularly in the creative domain: her favorite application is Inkscape (http://inkscape.org).
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Yeh, I've personally found myself drawing a similar conclusion. When I ask myself, "What problem is Canonical trying to solve with Harmony?" the only answer I can guess at that makes sense to me is "Take advantage of copyleft licensed-code without having to respect copyleft."
This is pure speculation, though. It's not clear through any of the Harmony-related things I have read what the actual problem they are trying to solve is, so all I have is my guess.
How does Debian's social contract prevent the resale of Debian? Isn't Canonical essentially reselling Debian today with Ubuntu LTS?
The Debian Free Software Guidelines don't seem to have a problem with it, but perhaps I'm misunderstanding?
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Free Redistribution
The license of a Debian component may not restrict any party from selling or giving away the software as a component of an aggregate software distribution containing programs from several different sources. The license may not require a royalty or other fee for such sale.
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