Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] trial software in portage?
Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 22:25:30
Message-Id: 200705141823.09575.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] trial software in portage? by Daniel Black
1 On Monday 14 May 2007, Daniel Black wrote:
2 > Marijn mentioned on Irc that the bestcrypt license commercial trial license
3 > shouldn't be a supported package in Gentoo.
4
5 if you dont want to support it then dont ... it isnt any dev's place to tell
6 other devs what software they choose to support
7
8 > Is there a need for official policy here (and a bit of package removals)?
9
10 here's an idea: maintain what *you* want to maintain, dont tell others they
11 cant maintain things
12
13 if you dont like commercial software, then dont use it ... if you want a
14 distribution that forbids use of such software, switch to Debian
15 -mike

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