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On Sun, 2002-02-03 at 06:59, David Herbert wrote: |
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> Call me paranoid but before putting effort into gentoo I would like to know more about who gentoo is. |
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> You're a .org but are you actually a charity? |
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No, we're not a charity but we accept donations to help offset |
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development/hosting/hardware costs. For the most part, these expenses |
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have been coming out of my and our volunteer network admin's pockets. |
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The "donate" button is there so that those who enjoy Gentoo Linux can |
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freely offer their support for our project. |
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> What is your relationship to gentoo.com? |
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Our domain names both have "gentoo" in them. |
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> What is your relationship with IBM? |
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None, other than I do contract work for them (indirectly) to pay my |
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bills. |
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> I suppose I'm looking for a statement akin to debian's social contract, because at present any ethics (which to me is the whole point of linux) are only implied. |
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I don't think that a Gentoo Linux social contract would necessarily be a |
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bad thing. However, from past experience I've found that these kinds of |
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written "ethical guidelines" are often not followed or respected. I |
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also don't see anything in the Debian Social Contract that is anything |
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special. "We won't hide problems"? Isn't this stuff kind of obvious |
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for a free software project? But there are some good things in there. |
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I don't really see this as a "social contract" (since it's not as if |
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it's enforceable), but more like design/policy guidelines. |
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> Also it would be nice to have a global option (in /etc/make.conf ?) for allowing only GPL'ed software, GPL + other "open source" licences, or any licence - so the end user can decide. |
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Yes, we plan to add that feature at some point. |
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Best Regards, |
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Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o> |
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Chief Architect/President http://www.gentoo.org |
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Gentoo Technologies, Inc. |
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