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On Wednesday 28 January 2004 03:21, Jörg Schaible wrote: |
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> But if you have the impression, that it is not ready yet (although they are |
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> self-hosting for years), you could also take a look at Perforce |
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> (www.perforce.com). It is already in portage. Although it is commercial and |
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> closed source, it is free for OSS development [...] |
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Our social contract says "Gentoo Linux will never depend upon a piece of |
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software unless it conforms to... some license approved by the Open Source |
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Initiative (OSI.)". |
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Even if you read that to mean only what users have to use and not developers, |
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I for one very much don't want to have to use non-free software to develop |
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with Gentoo. |
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Besides, the Perforce terms are that you have to sign a license agreement to |
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get these free licenses, and the agreement is good for one year. Every year |
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they give you a new agreement to sign, and there are no rules on how they may |
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change these agreements. I'd not want to bind Gentoo to something like that. |
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Dan Armak |
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Gentoo Linux developer (KDE) |
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Matan, Israel |
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Public GPG key: http://dev.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key |
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