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Matthew Marlowe wrote: |
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> If we could get a license donated, my vote would be to switch to Atlassian |
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> Jira, http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira. It seems to be gaining |
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> mindshare rather quickly, and the company I work for just shelled out $2,400 |
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> because they liked it so much more than RT/Bugzilla. I believe it supports |
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> multiple DB backends, including all the usual suspects. |
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Maybe it's just me, but I think that having such a core component of the |
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distribution be proprietary is in complete violation of Gentoo's Social |
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Contract[1] (if not the letter of it, then its spirit of openness). It |
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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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[1] http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/contract.xml |
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Peter Gordon (codergeek42) |
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Gentoo Forums Global Moderator |
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