From: Leo Lipelis <aeoo@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Ethical Policy
Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 18:58:54 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020204005854.GA22957@chiba.3jane.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <003901c1acba$f3d98d20$fd00a8c0@frampton>
On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 01:59:07PM -0000, David Herbert wrote:
> Call me paranoid but before putting effort into gentoo I would like to
> know more about who gentoo is. You're a .org but are you actually a
> charity? What is your relationship to gentoo.com? What is your
> relationship with IBM? I suppose I'm looking for a statement akin to
> debian's social contract, because at present any ethics (which to me
> is the whole point of linux) are only implied.
> Also it would be nice to have a global option (in /etc/make.conf ?)
> for allowing only GPL'ed software, GPL + other "open source" licences,
> or any licence - so the end user can decide.
> Regards,
> David Herbert.
You know, at first I thought you had a valid concern and I admired your
ethical stance. But after seeing this:
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From: "David Herbert" <dsherbert@mail.com>
To: <gentoo-dev@gentoo.org>
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Ethical Policy
Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 13:59:07 -0000
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I just think you're a phoney. Sorry. I mean, at least you could boot
into GNU/Linux for 1 minute to send this silly email? Is that so
difficult?
--Leo Lipelis
next parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-04 0:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <003901c1acba$f3d98d20$fd00a8c0@frampton>
2002-02-04 0:58 ` Leo Lipelis [this message]
2002-02-04 11:22 ` [gentoo-dev] Ethical Policy linux-dev
2002-02-04 16:37 ` David Herbert
2002-02-04 17:24 ` Tod M. Neidt
2002-02-04 18:09 ` David Herbert
2002-02-04 18:29 ` Tod M. Neidt
2002-02-04 18:39 ` Kenneth Vestergaard Schmidt
2002-02-04 19:19 ` David Herbert
2002-02-04 19:40 ` Daniel Robbins
2002-02-04 23:39 ` Tod M. Neidt
2002-02-04 19:29 ` Chuck Haines
2002-02-04 19:20 ` Daniel Robbins
2002-02-04 19:42 ` David Herbert
2002-02-04 19:48 ` mbutcher
2002-02-04 19:51 ` mbutcher
2002-02-04 20:17 ` Daniel Robbins
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