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On Wednesday 28 January 2004 11:45, Dan Armak wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 28 January 2004 03:21, Jörg Schaible wrote: |
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> > But if you have the impression, that it is not ready yet (although they |
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> > are self-hosting for years), you could also take a look at Perforce |
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> > (www.perforce.com). It is already in portage. Although it is commercial |
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> > and closed source, it is free for OSS development [...] |
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> Our social contract says "Gentoo Linux will never depend upon a piece of |
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> software unless it conforms to... some license approved by the Open Source |
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> Initiative (OSI.)". |
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> Even if you read that to mean only what users have to use and not |
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> developers, I for one very much don't want to have to use non-free software |
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> to develop with Gentoo. |
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> Besides, the Perforce terms are that you have to sign a license agreement |
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> to get these free licenses, and the agreement is good for one year. Every |
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> year they give you a new agreement to sign, and there are no rules on how |
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> they may change these agreements. I'd not want to bind Gentoo to something |
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> like that. |
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I agree with you on this. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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