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From: hasufell <hasufell@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Gentoo, GitHub, and the Social Contract
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 17:56:54
Message-Id: 54E4D25A.70708@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] Gentoo, GitHub, and the Social Contract by Dean Stephens
1 Dean Stephens:
2 > On 02/15/15 22:26, hasufell wrote:
3 >> Scripts no one can read except the team (even after being asked to
4 >> publish them) is by definition propriety software. It was used to
5 >> develop and package emul-linux-x86-* packages until this very day.
6 >>
7 > Your prose might benefit from labeling when you are using hyperbole,
8 > otherwise when you make factually inaccurate claims it might seem as
9 > though you actually believe them.
10 >
11 > In case that was unclear: while those scripts might not be formally
12 > published, they have been made available to people who are not on the
13 > team. Unless, that is, you define "the team" as anyone who has seen the
14 > scripts; in which case you would be trivially correct by definition.
15 >
16
17 Are you saying you only share the code with your buddies? In that case,
18 it is against our social contract as well.
19
20 Not only that, it is even a serious security problem since the developer
21 community doesn't know how these things are packaged and neither do the
22 users.

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Re: [gentoo-project] Gentoo, GitHub, and the Social Contract Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o>