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On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 09:20:21PM -0700, Greg Corcoran wrote: |
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> On Sun, 2002-09-22 at 08:55, Richard Stallman wrote: |
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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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> The kernel currently can be configured only for Linux but in the future |
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> we may support other kernels that the community has interest in. |
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Sounds kinda good. Proves how modular Gentoo is. Of course I also wouldn't want the project |
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to lose focus. I like the BSDs precisely because of how tied together everything is. |
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Ie, things are "ported" to OpenBSD. In some cases (say one-time passwords with S/KEY), they |
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are implimented completely differently to take advantage of kernel specific options. |
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If Gentoo became Gentoo OS, then I would expect it to become more integrated. Not longer |
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just a "distro". |
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I think the Linux kernel is a cool kernel to integrate into because of the work that is |
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going into it. |
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> When a Gentoo System finishes booting the kernel a copyright line comes |
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> up. It currently says something like the following if I remember |
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> correctly: |
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> Gentoo OS (Linux Kernel) http://www.gentoo.org |
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> Made with GNU Tools and Components |
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> Portage (c) 2001-2002 Gentoo Technologies, Inc. Distributed under GPL |
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Isn't the copyright completely irrelavent because the GPL is indeed "copyleft"? |
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I think if you begin listing all the contributions from all over the place, you will have a |
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crowded screen! ;) I know glibc is major and gcc is major, but heaps of stuff is from other |
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places (Python being major and not gnu!). |
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> I'm not sure who utlimately decides issues like this where its very |
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> difficult to keep all parties happy. Perhaps the Gentoo Technologies, |
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> Inc. board of directors should decide. I'm not sure who that is though |
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> and who the stake holders are. |
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Well, the users aren't we? Until there is a for sale product that is non-GPL'd in someway, |
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the users are the stakeholders. I think the developers should canvas our opinions on these |
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issues (or we should give them). |
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I am not a Gentoo developer, BTW ;) |
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> The website could credit significant contributing projects to give credit where credit is |
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due. Certainly Python is a very important part of Gentoo and that's not GNU. |
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Agreed. Make that part of the boot screen. A link to credits. |
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Evan |
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-- |
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Evan Read |
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http://eread.freeshell.org |
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"The future comes 60 minutes an hour no matter who you are or what you |
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do." |
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The Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis |
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