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On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 16:30:03 -0700 Peter Gordon |
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<codergeek42@g.o> wrote: |
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| Maybe it's just me, but I think that having such a core component of |
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| the distribution be proprietary is in complete violation of Gentoo's |
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| Social Contract[1] (if not the letter of it, then its spirit of |
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| openness). It states: |
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| "Gentoo will never never depend upon a piece of software or |
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| metadata unless it conforms to the GNU General Public License, |
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| the GNU Lesser General Public License, the Creative Commons - |
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| Attribution/Share Alike or some other license approved by the |
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| Open Source Initiative (OSI)." |
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| Isn't this one of the driving reasons why our forums run phpBB instead |
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| of something like vBulletin, for example? :) |
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In the past, it's been more or less agreed that it's not depending |
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upon it if it uses an open data format... There was talk of moving the |
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forums to proprietary software at one point, for example. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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Mail : ciaran dot mccreesh at blueyonder.co.uk |
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