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On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 12:18:41AM -0500, Steven R. Baker wrote: |
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: First, I'm a very ardent advocate of the Free Software Movement, and |
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: the GNU Project, so naturally I was wondering why you decided to call |
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: the distribution Gentoo Linux instead of properly, Gentoo GNU/Linux? |
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I can't speak for Dan, but... Isn't GNU/Linux a Stallmanism? I recall |
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reading an interview with Linus where he doesn't even think it should be |
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called GNU/Linux, but just plain Linux. |
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: Also, I was wondering if there is a policy regarding licensing issues |
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: that you follow as a project. IE: do you keep track of which licenses |
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: are compatible with which? A little known fact is that the Python 2.x |
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: license is incompatible with the GPL, so no GPL code can be used with |
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: Python without explicit written permission from the author. What kind |
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: of safeguards do you have against this? |
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However, the license is OSI-compliant. In theory, this code "infection" |
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would take place if we were talking about GPL/BSD projects. |
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Though, I don't see this as an issue. We're not developing or extending |
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the internals of Python. Everything is being created as external |
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packages. |
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--Jerry |
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name: Jerry Alexandratos || Open-Source software isn't a |
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phone: 703.599.6023 || matter of life or death... |
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email: jerry@××××××.com || ...It's much more important |
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|| than that! |