[gentoo-dev] Ethical Policy

[David Herbert]

Call me paranoid but before putting effort into gentoo I would like to know more about who gentoo is.  You're a .org but are you actually a charity?  What is your relationship to gentoo.com?  What is your relationship with IBM?  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.

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.

Regards,
David Herbert.