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>>>>> On Sun, 17 Jul 2022, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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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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I believe that's not accurate. Policy says that all our works must be |
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released under a free software license [1]. Ebuilds can _refer_ to |
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proprietary software, but everything committed to the Gentoo repository |
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(with the exception of license documents) must be free software. |
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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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Any proprietary distfiles referred to by ebuilds are irrelevant for this |
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discussion. We don't host that code on github. |
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[1] https://www.gentoo.org/glep/glep-0076.html#licensing-of-gentoo-projects |
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