Re: [gentoo-project] Gentoo, GitHub, and the Social Contract

[Rich Freeman]

On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 9:42 PM, hasufell <hasufell@g.o> wrote:
> Andreas K. Huettel:
>>
>> * The Gentoo Social Contract states [1]:
>> "Gentoo will never depend upon a piece of software or metadata unless it
>> conforms to the GNU General Public License, the GNU Lesser General Public
>> License, the Creative Commons - Attribution/Share Alike or some other license
>> approved by the Open Source Initiative (OSI)."
>>
>
> This has already been violated numerous times, including the development
> of emul-linux-x86-* packages.
>

A principle being violated in the past isn't a good reason to simply
abandon it.  Principles like this one are always going to be hard to
hit 100%, but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't do the best we can.

That said, I don't really see how the 32-bit packages violate this.
If they happen to include non-FOSS that really isn't GENTOO depending
on them.  I don't think anything essential in Gentoo depends on any
non-FOSS components of any packages in the tree.  Having non-stuff in
the tree isn't the same as depending on them.  Neither is having a
random package that depends on a non-free package - we're talking
about GENTOO depending on something, not a random package in the tree.

If some project wanted to ONLY accept contributions via pull requests
on github, then I could start seeing some concern.

-- 
Rich