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Peter Gordon wrote: |
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> Matthew Marlowe wrote: |
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>> If we could get a license donated, my vote would be to switch to Atlassian |
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>> Jira, http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira. It seems to be gaining |
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>> mindshare rather quickly, and the company I work for just shelled out $2,400 |
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>> because they liked it so much more than RT/Bugzilla. I believe it supports |
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>> multiple DB backends, including all the usual suspects. |
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> Maybe it's just me, but I think that having such a core component of the |
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> distribution be proprietary is in complete violation of Gentoo's Social |
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> Contract[1] (if not the letter of it, then its spirit of openness). It |
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> states: |
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> "Gentoo will never never depend upon a piece of software or |
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> metadata unless it conforms to the GNU General Public License, |
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> the GNU Lesser General Public License, the Creative Commons - |
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> Attribution/Share Alike or some other license approved by the |
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> Open Source Initiative (OSI)." |
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> |
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> Isn't this one of the driving reasons why our forums run phpBB instead |
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> of something like vBulletin, for example? :) |
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> |
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> [1] http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/contract.xml |
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I'm not entirely sure if this is directed towards the supporting web |
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applications or of Gentoo itself. To me its directed towards the meta |
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distribution and not any of the underlying support mechanisms of Gentoo. |
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If we were to use some non-gpl webapp, the underlying Gentoo system you |
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run does not depend on a non-gpl piece of software. A bug tracking |
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system is not an underlying component of Gentoo. Its just a tool that |
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helps with development of Gentoo. |
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But anyways, some people view it in the strict sense and they're |
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entitled to it. That's just how I view it when I read it. Its a bit |
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vague on what Gentoo really is. Is it talking only about the meta |
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distribution? Or that plus the underlying supporting systems that help |
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run Gentoo? |
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Lance Albertson <ramereth@g.o> |
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