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In the Gentoo social contract, I read: |
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Gentoo Linux is and will remain Free Software |
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We will release our contributions to Gentoo Linux as free software, |
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under the GNU General Public License version 2 (or later, at our |
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discretion.) Any external contributions to Gentoo Linux (in the form |
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of freely-distributable sources or binaries) may be incorporated into |
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Gentoo Linux provided that we are legally entitled to do so. However, |
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Gentoo Linux will never depend upon a piece of software unless it |
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conforms to the GNU General Public License, GNU "Lesser" Public |
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License or some other license approved by the Open Source Initiative |
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(OSI.) |
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That criterion is not quite enough to achieve the stated goal, because |
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Licenses approved by the OSI are not necessarily Free Software |
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licenses. As a result, this criterion allows Gentoo to include, and |
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even depend on, programs that are not free software. (See |
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http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/apsl.html for an example.) |
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Would you please consider changing your criterion to refer to both the |
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OSI and the FSF, so that licenses must qualify as both free software |
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and open source? |
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(If you would call the system Gentoo GNU/Linux, that would help us |
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also. See http://www.gnu.org/gnu/why-gnu-linux.html.) |
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