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 1EI9BX-000390-KQ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 21 Sep 2005 18:19:12 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j8LIBSSY027028; Wed, 21 Sep 2005 18:11:28 GMT Received: from smtp03.gnvlscdb.sys.nuvox.net (smtp.nuvox.net [64.89.70.9]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j8LI8c73000479 for ; Wed, 21 Sep 2005 18:08:39 GMT Received: from cgianelloni.nuvox.net (216.215.202.4.nw.nuvox.net [216.215.202.4]) by smtp03.gnvlscdb.sys.nuvox.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with SMTP id j8LIEX2u011274 for ; Wed, 21 Sep 2005 14:14:34 -0400 Received: by cgianelloni.nuvox.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 21 Sep 2005 14:13:13 -0400 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] "Commercial" software in portage From: Chris Gianelloni 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: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-claVcmbY3hGKONkSuskk" Organization: Gentoo Linux Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 14:13:12 -0400 Message-Id: <1127326392.30787.64.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.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-Archives-Salt: 23bd62cd-99fd-4a16-8465-ea87802fd66a X-Archives-Hash: 1653551f40af7ccca7573497ca63b304 --=-claVcmbY3hGKONkSuskk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 18:54 +0100, Jos=C3=A9 Carlos Cruz Costa wrote: > 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 Umm... no. An ebuild is just a recipe for fetching/building a package. It isn't the same as modification and redistribution (ala RPM) in any way. It is *nothing* like tainting the kernel and this conversation has *nothing* to do with what I asked an opinion on. I'm trying to ask a technical opinion on a technical issue. There's no need to pull in any political garbage into the discussion, as that only fans the flames. > Remember that are a lot of people that don't want to use that kind of > software. There are people that doesn't have even xorg and have to > sync all the ebuilds from portage.=20 Those people are the exact reason I am wanting to do this. Right now, they see "License: DOOM3" when they do an "emerge -S"... I'm proposing they would see a "License: DOOM3 commercial" instead. Anyway, please try to refrain from hijacking my thread into some pseudo-political stance. I'm not making one or asking for one. I'm asking for acceptance on a technical solution for some users that allows them to make a political decision, without making any decisions for them. --=20 Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead Games - Developer Gentoo Linux --=-claVcmbY3hGKONkSuskk Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBDMaK4kT4lNIS36YERAgo4AJ9dJJvog9mb3ppkPIVyrdKBZ3sfhACgniYV EZF/kkIPcH9vscRMCIIuMzQ= =Wu3G -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-claVcmbY3hGKONkSuskk-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list