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On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 12:49:33PM -0600, Ryan Hill wrote: |
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> It might be worth noting that it appears that Gentoo would be the first |
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> distribution to join. I'd be interested in knowing if the SFC considers |
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> distributing closed-source or proprietary software (nero, ati/nvidia |
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> drivers, vmware) to be "producing non-free software (as per the |
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> Conservancy's charitable purpose)" as mentioned in section 2(b) of their |
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> notes. Paragraph 2(a) seems to prohibit it. |
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> > a. The Project Will Be Free Software. The Conservancy and the Project agree that |
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> > any software distributed by the Project will be distributed solely as Free Software. |
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> If that's not a problem I think this is a great idea. |
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It's not a problem - what we actually produce as a product, the ebuilds, etc., |
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are free to distribute. |
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