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On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 18:54 +0100, José Carlos Cruz Costa wrote: |
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> Hi everybody, |
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> If it's commercial, the company in question should (and must) allow an |
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> ebuild for is product, like what happens with rpms and other packages. |
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> Adding commercial ebuilds to portage is like tainting the kernel with |
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> binary drivers. |
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More to the point...most of the ebuilds in question are just wrappers |
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for the install process...it still requires the original media (be that |
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physical or digital) or a key to install trust me when I say that we |
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aren't distributing binaries unless we have the right to do so. |
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Daniel Ostrow |
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Gentoo Foundation Board of Trustees |
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Gentoo/{PPC,PPC64,DevRel} |
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dostrow@g.o |
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