From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from sog-mx-4.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com ([172.29.43.194] helo=mx.sourceforge.net) by sfs-ml-4.v29.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1XcfSi-0002SS-5U for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 19:02:48 +0000 X-ACL-Warn: Received: from galore.getmail.no ([84.210.184.6]) by sog-mx-4.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) id 1XcfSg-0006E1-8p for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 19:02:48 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by galore.getmail.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC7505649D; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 21:02:39 +0200 (CEST) Received: from galore.getmail.no ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (galore.get.c.bitbit.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id UkDa7PLDRg62; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 21:02:39 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by galore.getmail.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B86C564DD; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 21:02:39 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at galore.get.c.bitbit.net Received: from galore.getmail.no ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (galore.get.c.bitbit.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id g6oAyFvFi-qw; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 21:02:39 +0200 (CEST) Received: from coldstorage.localnet (cm-84.208.97.23.getinternet.no [84.208.97.23]) by galore.getmail.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 790285649D; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 21:02:39 +0200 (CEST) From: Thomas Zander To: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 21:02:38 +0200 Message-ID: <2421098.8lktok9SJz@coldstorage> User-Agent: KMail/4.13.3 (Linux/3.14-2-amd64; KDE/4.14.0; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: References: <2262118.BDDGpkgqmz@1337h4x0r> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-Spam-Report: Spam Filtering performed by mx.sourceforge.net. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. X-Headers-End: 1XcfSg-0006E1-8p Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Something people are forgetting about the Gentoo / Luke-jr censorship issue X-BeenThere: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 19:02:48 -0000 On Friday 10. October 2014 19.26.49 Mike Hearn wrote: > I'm sure this suggestion will go down like a lead balloon, but Bitcoin Core > is not the first project that's had issues with Linux distros silently > modifying their software as they package it. And so far its been near impossible for those others to make distros not modify it. Firefox is actually a good idea, it made debian stop distributing it. Best solution is to build good relations with the packagers of distros. ps. Linux distros distributing GPL licensed apps are required by law to offer the sources of the thing they build and distribute as binary. Which allows you to check the difference with upstream. Most distros therefore have a process in place for this. Even for not FLOSS software like bitcoin core.