From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10669 invoked by uid 1002); 22 Nov 2003 13:34:15 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 14052 invoked from network); 22 Nov 2003 13:34:15 -0000 From: Caleb Tennis To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 08:34:05 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.93 References: <20031122073212.GA1639@cerberus.oppresses.us> <200311220243.43885.vapier@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200311220243.43885.vapier@gentoo.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Organization: Gentoo Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200311220834.05441.caleb@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo internal structure X-Archives-Salt: e7a82ebe-653d-4204-8405-baa23d9ef26a X-Archives-Hash: d65f2a0ef7d23b3bed18dc5559474d86 On Saturday 22 November 2003 07:43, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Saturday 22 November 2003 02:32, Jon Portnoy wrote: > > > Quick poll of people reading this thread: Would you like to see the > > removal of nonfree software from the tree? That means things like > > vmware, the java packages, etc. As a Gentoo user/dev who has multiple deployments of Gentoo in a corporate environment, I would be highly pressed to look for an alternative distribution if non-free software was to be removed. I promote free software as much as I can, but I simply have to sometimes make the most economically sound choice. Think about the FSF's motive behind the creation of a Lesser GPL... to promote a more widespread use of the libraries vs. requiring code linked against it be freely available. I think some analogous ideas can be drawn here as well. Caleb -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list