Re: [gentoo-nfp] Social contract and its effect on upstream software choices

[Michał Górny]

On Fri, 2020-05-01 at 12:34 +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> > > > > > On Fri, 01 May 2020, Alec Warner wrote:
> > Consider a case where we have a piece of software and its open source.
> > The open source software has various plugins, some of which look
> > useful and we may wish to deploy them for Gentoo. However, we must
> > consider the social contract, hence this discussion.
> > Can we use the plugins if:
> >  (1) They are closed source (e.g. upstream provides binaries only with
> > a restricted non-free license.)
>
> IMHO it would contradict the Social Contract:
> "However, Gentoo will never depend upon a piece of software or metadata
> unless it conforms to the GNU General Public License, the GNU Lesser
> General Public License, the Creative Commons - Attribution/Share Alike
> or some other license approved by the Open Source Initiative (OSI)."
>
> >  (2) They are free software (e.g. FSF / OSI approved license) but they
> > cost money.
>
> No problem there. Also, we can freely redistribute them if they are free
> software.

Are we talking of grsecurity here?  ;-)

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Best regards,
Michał Górny