access to Launchpad binaries (was freemat_3.5-0ubuntu1_source.changes rejected)

[Elliot Murphy]

Hi!

(``-_- wrote:
> On Thursday 10 January 2008 23:17:17 Philippe Verdy wrote:
>> It's true that Launchpad was created by the promoter of the Ubuntu Linux distrib, but Launchpad is still in itself a proprietary platform with closed sources, 
> whose objectives  do not match perfectly with the advertised intent to "open" its platform to  other open sourced or free projects.
> 
> I wonder if Launchpad could provide the binaries/installer for itself, so users/devs like me could install it on our own servers, and not depend on Canonical 
> servers.
> That would allow for us to have it as public or private as we wish.
> Also it should allow installers to choose any kind of license on it...
> 
> It would be a great replacer for bugzilla and Issue Tracker.
> 
> What do you guys/gals think? Would this be possible?

We're focused on making Launchpad the best possible collaboration 
platform for the free software community, and currently we make it 
available as a free service, rather than as distributed software. 
Ultimately we would like to achieve seamless collaboration between bug 
trackers regardless of where the software is hosted.

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Elliot "statik" Murphy | https://launchpad.net/~statik/