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Hi there, I'm interested in getting start with Gentoo. There are a |
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couple of concerns that I have, however. |
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First, I'm a very ardent advocate of the Free Software Movement, and |
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the GNU Project, so naturally I was wondering why you decided to call |
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the distribution Gentoo Linux instead of properly, Gentoo GNU/Linux? |
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Also, I was wondering if there is a policy regarding licensing issues |
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that you follow as a project. IE: do you keep track of which licenses |
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are compatible with which? A little known fact is that the Python 2.x |
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license is incompatible with the GPL, so no GPL code can be used with |
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Python without explicit written permission from the author. What kind |
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of safeguards do you have against this? |
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Also, I'm very interested in getting involved in the packaging tools. |
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Where does the letter 'e' come from? As in ebuild... Is that form |
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Gentoo's days as Enoch? |
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And last, my computer isn't capable of booting from CD-ROM. How do I |
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start the Gentoo installer? (I do, however, have a CD burner). |
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Thanks, |
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-Steven |