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On 07/31/2013 01:27 PM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: |
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> Am Mittwoch 31 Juli 2013, 01:17:50 schrieb Jeroen Roovers: |
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>> On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 17:28:20 +0200 |
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>> hasufell <hasufell@g.o> wrote: |
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>>>> Gentoo has been and should remain a pragmatic distribution rather |
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>>>> than promoting a specific licensing philosophy to our users. |
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>>> We are already doing that by declaring: |
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>>> "Gentoo is and will remain Free Software". |
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>> I disagree with your interpretation. This text has always been about |
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>> the software Gentoo produces, not about the distro of multi-license |
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>> packages that this software allows you to compile. So it's about the |
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>> package manager, ebuilds, eclasses, helper tools, boot scripts and so |
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>> on that the Gentoo Project authors. |
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> Actually, Jer makes a very good point here which I would like to |
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> wholeheartedly support. |
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> I have always found it a positive side of Gentoo that regarding the software |
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> which we package we focus on practicalities instead of ideology. |
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Free software is more practical and gentoo in it's very nature proves |
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that point. |
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