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On 8 Feb 2002, Vitaly Kushneriuk wrote: |
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> > But all of a sudden I have to trust you? You won't trust Gentoo, why should |
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> > anybody want to trust eachother then? If people keep the copyright to them- |
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> > selves, it would mean that small pieces of Gentoo could fall into proprie- |
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> > tary status. |
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> No. The whole point is that once no one is holding _all_ the copyrights |
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> you don't have to worry. You don't have to trust me. |
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> If I want I _can_ use the code _I_ wrote in propriatry product. |
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By "code" you _are_ referring to ebuilds, correct? They are shell scripts |
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that are for all intents and purposes useless to anything other than |
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portage anyway. Most of it is "derived" from the README file in the |
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original tarball anyway. Personally, I'll copywrite all my ebuilds to |
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gentoo out of sheer apathy. Countless hours of work and a decent |
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distro to boot should be plenty to base "trust" off of. If you don't want |
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to, that's fine, but your reasoning is flawed, and the message you send to |
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others is unnecessary. I've been more swayed by the pragmatic approaches |
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of the Open Source movement. By working together in an open way you, end |
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up with a better quality product. In other words, let it be and just |
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enjoy the ride. |
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