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From: Edgar Hucek <hostmaster@×××××××.at>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o, wolf31o2@g.o
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Niches and new developers (especially xbox)
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 21:34:27
Message-Id: 200406102336.13241.hostmaster@ed-soft.at
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Niches and new developers (especially xbox) by Chris Gianelloni
1 Am Donnerstag, 10. Juni 2004 23:11 schrieb Chris Gianelloni:
2 > The possibility of having an official Gentoo port are pretty much
3 > non-existent so long as there is a question of the legality of such a
4 > port. We cannot allow ourselves to be liable in breaking laws.
5
6 Look at www.xbox-linux.org. Every work the Project have done,
7 was done under the GPL.
8 About Legality : Is it legal to have CSS ? ( Just an example )
9
10 > That doesn't even touch on the fact that the Xbox is not a port, at
11 > all. It is only a specific hardware subset of x86. While it does have
12 > some specific requirements for packages, the work is nothing like
13 > actually getting Gentoo to work on a new architecture.
14
15 You are right, the xbox is no real port. It's an pacthed x86 kernel
16 to boot on the Xbox and support the video output.
17
18 cu
19
20 gimli_xbox
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