From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EI972-0002fI-2D for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 21 Sep 2005 18:14:32 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j8LI7puG027020; Wed, 21 Sep 2005 18:07:51 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j8LI65Pe013751 for ; Wed, 21 Sep 2005 18:06:05 GMT Received: from [65.115.53.39] (helo=[192.168.10.54]) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1EI94e-0000P7-8D for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 21 Sep 2005 18:12:04 +0000 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] "Commercial" software in portage From: Daniel Ostrow To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <3f85ef27050921105464c82c51@mail.gmail.com> References: <20050921172801.42BBEF5C20@mail.deploylinux.net> <3f85ef27050921105464c82c51@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Organization: The Gentoo Foundation Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 14:08:08 -0400 Message-Id: <1127326088.7832.35.camel@Memoria.anyarch.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j8LI65Pe013751 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id j8LI7pvr027020 X-Archives-Salt: 7dbedd2e-29b6-4dbd-92ff-87a4c8161b11 X-Archives-Hash: 24afc3d2f9014beb6d906b7e2453c8d7 On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 18:54 +0100, Jos=C3=A9 Carlos Cruz Costa wrote: > Hi everybody, >=20 > If it's commercial, the company in question should (and must) allow an > ebuild for is product, like what happens with rpms and other packages. > Adding commercial ebuilds to portage is like tainting the kernel with > binary drivers.=20 >=20 More to the point...most of the ebuilds in question are just wrappers for the install process...it still requires the original media (be that physical or digital) or a key to install trust me when I say that we aren't distributing binaries unless we have the right to do so. --=20 Daniel Ostrow Gentoo Foundation Board of Trustees Gentoo/{PPC,PPC64,DevRel} dostrow@gentoo.org --=20 gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list