Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Joerg Schilling <Joerg.Schilling@××××××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Optional /usr merge in Gentoo
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 09:27:00
Message-Id: 521c70d6.W9K+fAxIeJBFLPGj%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Optional /usr merge in Gentoo by Joerg Schilling
1 Joerg Schilling <Joerg.Schilling@××××××××××××××××.de> wrote:
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3 > Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
4 >
5 > > > Isn't it strange that those people seem to have less problems with closed
6 > > > source than with a license that gives more freedom than the GPL? But
7 > > > you are correct that the problem seem to be humans and not a license text.
8 > >
9 > > You are aware that the GPL was not really intended to be used together
10 > > with other licenses? It was really intended to create an entire
11 > > operating system, all of which was 100% licensed as GPL, all of which
12 > > comprise an original work written from scratch
13 >
14 > But it has been proven that you cannot create a 100% GPL OS.
15 > More than 50% of all Linux distros are under different licenses...
16 >
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18 Sorry, this should be: More than 50% of a typical Linux distro is
19 under different licenses...
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21 Jörg
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Re: [gentoo-user] Optional /usr merge in Gentoo Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>