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On 02/14/15 15:48, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: |
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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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I didn't know that was in our social contract, but I totally stand |
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behind it. I feel very uneasy about our increasing use/dependency on |
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github. I'd like to see the stuff we have on github migrate back to our |
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infra. |
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Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. |
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Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened] |
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