From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=DMARC_MISSING, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from sdf.lonestar.org (sdf.lonestar.org [207.202.214.132]) by chiba.3jane.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25072ABB54 for ; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 02:25:44 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from eread@localhost) by sdf.lonestar.org (8.11.6+3.4W/8.11.6) id g8N7PgW13790; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 07:25:42 GMT Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 07:25:42 +0000 From: Evan Read To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Cc: mpickers@optusnet.com.au Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] License criteria for Gentoo Message-ID: <20020923072542.GA17984@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG> References: <1032754822.6898.21.camel@bosch.spidex.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1032754822.6898.21.camel@bosch.spidex.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux developer list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: X-Archives-Salt: a0dbf938-e36a-4cf4-8877-52e0b2566660 X-Archives-Hash: 30d53bdbb7d2472f440630424b59e739 On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 09:20:21PM -0700, Greg Corcoran wrote: > On Sun, 2002-09-22 at 08:55, Richard Stallman wrote: > > (If you would call the system Gentoo GNU/Linux, that would help us > > also. See http://www.gnu.org/gnu/why-gnu-linux.html.) > The kernel currently can be configured only for Linux but in the future > we may support other kernels that the community has interest in. Sounds kinda good. Proves how modular Gentoo is. Of course I also wouldn't want the project to lose focus. I like the BSDs precisely because of how tied together everything is. Ie, things are "ported" to OpenBSD. In some cases (say one-time passwords with S/KEY), they are implimented completely differently to take advantage of kernel specific options. If Gentoo became Gentoo OS, then I would expect it to become more integrated. Not longer just a "distro". I think the Linux kernel is a cool kernel to integrate into because of the work that is going into it. > When a Gentoo System finishes booting the kernel a copyright line comes > up. It currently says something like the following if I remember > correctly: > > Gentoo OS (Linux Kernel) http://www.gentoo.org > Made with GNU Tools and Components > Portage (c) 2001-2002 Gentoo Technologies, Inc. Distributed under GPL Isn't the copyright completely irrelavent because the GPL is indeed "copyleft"? I think if you begin listing all the contributions from all over the place, you will have a crowded screen! ;) I know glibc is major and gcc is major, but heaps of stuff is from other places (Python being major and not gnu!). > I'm not sure who utlimately decides issues like this where its very > difficult to keep all parties happy. Perhaps the Gentoo Technologies, > Inc. board of directors should decide. I'm not sure who that is though > and who the stake holders are. Well, the users aren't we? Until there is a for sale product that is non-GPL'd in someway, the users are the stakeholders. I think the developers should canvas our opinions on these issues (or we should give them). I am not a Gentoo developer, BTW ;) > The website could credit significant contributing projects to give credit where credit is due. Certainly Python is a very important part of Gentoo and that's not GNU. Agreed. Make that part of the boot screen. A link to credits. Evan -- Evan Read http://eread.freeshell.org "The future comes 60 minutes an hour no matter who you are or what you do." The Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis