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The thread started talking very specific - do we dump the non-OSI and tell |
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those who want that to find another distro or windows or do we maintain the |
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philosophy of Gentoo where either side can make an install that suits their |
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needs/philosophy. |
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This started with someone saying "We need to go cater to those who want |
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only OSI" and from there many said "we need to go only OSI and remove non |
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OSI stuff from portage" and those who wanted commericial/non-free could |
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hope a third party provided that or go to another distro. This provoked |
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replies stating that Gentoo's philosophy was choice and being able to do a |
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job and OSI only took away that choice and crippled the ability to do the |
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job. Eventually the thread morphed into it's current form of consideration |
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of how to handle licensing in portage. |
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The thread started talking very specific - do we dump the non-OSI and tell |
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those who want that to find another distro or windows or do we maintain the |
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philosophy of Gentoo where either side can make an install that suits their |
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needs/philosophy. |
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> On Sunday 23 November 2003 13:18, you wrote: |
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> > On Sat, 22 Nov 2003 18:43:36 -0500 |
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> > |
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> > "Brett I. Holcomb" <brettholcomb@×××××××.net> wrote: |
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> > > That's what most of the responces have pointed out - Gentoo's currrent |
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> > > |
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> > > philosophy is to give us all choice to run what we need or desire. |
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> > > Unfortunately some people felt we should not have that choice and |
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> > > wanted to dump any package that did not meet their approval as free, |
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> > > open, whatever out of portage and anyone who wants those packages had |
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> > > to go find them himself. Not real tolerant. Gentoo's setup is fine |
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> > > for all and tolerates each side - why change it? |
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> > |
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> > Hum, I didn't catch that from this thread. My impression was the desire |
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> > to know more implicitly what licences the software used was _using_. |
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> > OTOH, there still isn't patch to portage waiting in the wings, so like |
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> > most flamewars^w debates, we arn't talking about spacifics yet (just pie |
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> > in the sky.) :) |
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