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On Sun, Jul 17, 2022 at 03:33:13PM -0500, William Hubbs wrote: |
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> On Sun, Jul 17, 2022 at 03:42:52PM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> > On Sun, Jul 17, 2022 at 3:19 PM William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote: |
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> > > |
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> > > Of course someone could push everything back to github; however, there |
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> > > is nothing we can do about that so that is completely moot for this |
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> > > discussion. |
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> > Well, what exactly does copilot have to do with anything? If the |
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> > concern is about copilot "misappropriating" Gentoo's code, then it |
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> > seems we agree that moving off of Github won't change anything. |
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> > The social contract talks about how "Gentoo will never depend upon |
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> > [proprietary software]." It doesn't mention anything about Gentoo not |
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> > enabling it/etc. In fact our policies allow proprietary software to |
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> > be in our repository (obviously with restrictions on mirroring/etc). |
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> > Some argue that this is enabling proprietary software, but even if so |
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> > we're not breaking any promises. |
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> Rich, |
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> The question is around the GPL specifically. |
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> the point is, are we as a project ok with copylot re-appropriating |
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> our GPL code, possibly to proprietary projects, which could be argued |
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> violates the GPL? |
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heh, that was a typo, s/copylot/copilot/, but I guess it fits; that's |
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what it does. ;-) |
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William |