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On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 2:59 PM, Ciaran McCreesh |
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<ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Sat, 10 Oct 2015 21:56:52 +0300 |
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> Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@g.o> wrote: |
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>> 1) GitHub _was already blocked_ in several countries [1]. We are an |
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>> international community, thus we can't rely on such resource. |
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> And no doubt Gentoo will be blocked at some point, if it becomes |
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> popular enough and continues to include software which upsets people. |
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Of course, the whole point of the social contract is that if Gentoo is |
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ever "blocked" or taken over by a hostile interest, etc, then |
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everything of value that makes us what we are is already FOSS. |
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Ideally we should get to a state where all of infra (minus things like |
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credentials or personal info) is documented and trivial for anybody to |
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copy. That would both make it easier for others to contribute and |
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make it easy to roll your own Gentoo should that be useful. |
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We haven't really pushed for a copyright attribution solution, but |
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even there we were looking at something like the FSFe FLA which is |
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designed to prevent being held hostage by a hostile owner (maybe the |
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trustees lose their minds or somebody sues Gentoo, prevails, and is |
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awarded all our copyrights). |
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In any case, I think the arguments have been hashed out. FWIW I fully |
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support the social contract and the importance of building on FOSS. |
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At the same time, we should be pragmatic when somebody comes along |
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with a largely-free solution and nobody else is stepping up with a |
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completely-free alternative. I suspect we'll manage to find a |
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reasonable compromise. |
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Rich |
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