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On Saturday 22 November 2003 07:43, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> On Saturday 22 November 2003 02:32, Jon Portnoy wrote: |
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> > Quick poll of people reading this thread: Would you like to see the |
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> > removal of nonfree software from the tree? That means things like |
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> > vmware, the java packages, etc. |
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As a Gentoo user/dev who has multiple deployments of Gentoo in a corporate |
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environment, I would be highly pressed to look for an alternative |
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distribution if non-free software was to be removed. I promote free software |
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as much as I can, but I simply have to sometimes make the most economically |
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sound choice. |
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Think about the FSF's motive behind the creation of a Lesser GPL... to promote |
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a more widespread use of the libraries vs. requiring code linked against it |
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be freely available. I think some analogous ideas can be drawn here as well. |
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Caleb |
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