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mike [vapier@×××××××.com] wrote: |
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> as for 'allowing Gentoo to include programs that are not free software', |
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> then thats just tooooooooooo freakin bad imo. i want to play UT2003, |
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> you going to tell me i cant ? (insert other packages that fall under this |
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> criteria). |
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> > Would you please consider changing your criterion to refer to both the |
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> > OSI and the FSF, so that licenses must qualify as both free software |
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> > and open source? |
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> maybe for the section that Gentoo wont depend on, but if you're want to |
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> say Gentoo will never include software under such strict requirements, |
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> then piss off ;) |
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Hrm. I don't think this sort of vitriol is going to help. Also, you |
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would do well not to read more into what Stallman says than there is. |
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I don't really think we should mischaracterize what Stallman is bringing |
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up here. He hasn't asked anyone to ban all non-free software from the |
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distribution. All he's saying is, with our definition it's possible for |
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software that is considered "open source" but not "free" (as defined |
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by RMS) to be depended on. He'd rather see us require only "free" |
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software be depended on. (We're only talking about the base system |
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here, not the entire distribution) |
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The issue at hand is one of the terms we use. Do we mean Open Source, |
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or do we mean "free software" (as defined by RMS). Personally, I'm |
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fine with just saying that we will never depend on anything that's not |
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open source, but saying we'll only depend on free software would be |
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fine too considering that we /are/ only talking about the base system. |
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Either way, I think it would probably behoove us to better define what |
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we are saying. If we end up going the "Free Software" route, then we |
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should probably make sure we refer to the FSF as well as OSI. If we |
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don't handle it, it's only going to keep cropping up. |
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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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For the record, if my vote counts for anything, I'm still against this. |
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