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On Mon, 14 May 2007 21:26:17 +1000 |
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Daniel Black <dragonheart@g.o> wrote: |
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> Is there a need for official policy here (and a bit of package |
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> removals)? |
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There's no official policy preventing commercial software from |
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being in the tree, so long as some conditions are met [1] -- although if |
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source code isn't available for a package, it's very hard to support it |
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properly. |
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Such packages probably shouldn't be included in the default accepted |
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licences, however. |
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[1]: http://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/tree/index.html |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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