Garrett: If it's not practical to redistribute free software, it's not free software in practice

Matthew Garrett continueshis campaign against Canonical's "intellectualproperty rights policy". "The reality is that if Debian had hadan identical policy in 2004, Ubuntu wouldn't exist. The effort required tostrip all Debian trademarks from the source packages would have beenimmense, and this would have had to be repeated for every release. Whilethis policy is in place, nobody's going to be able to take Ubuntu and buildsomething better."