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Hi all, |
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whenever the suggestion comes up to enable contributions to Gentoo via Github |
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pull requests, we also encounter discussion of the Gentoo Social Contract. |
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The two points that are seen as conflicting are |
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* The software running Github is closed source, proprietary. |
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* The Gentoo Social Contract states [1]: |
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"Gentoo will never depend upon a piece of software or metadata unless it |
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conforms to the GNU General Public License, the GNU Lesser General Public |
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License, the Creative Commons - Attribution/Share Alike or some other license |
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approved by the Open Source Initiative (OSI)." |
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We need to resolve this discussion somehow, by formulating a clear policy. |
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Which is why I'm putting it up here for discussion and will ask to add it to |
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the next council meeting agenda. |
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Many arguments have already been made. Feel free to summarize your points |
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again in a reply to this e-mail. |
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Cheers, |
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Andreas |
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[1] http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/contract.xml |
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Andreas K. Huettel |
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Gentoo Linux developer |
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dilfridge@g.o |
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http://www.akhuettel.de/ |