From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3021 invoked by uid 1002); 23 Nov 2003 00:30:13 -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 8557 invoked from network); 23 Nov 2003 00:30:13 -0000 X-WM-Posted-At: mailandnews.com; Sat, 22 Nov 03 19:30:13 -0500 From: Jason Stubbs To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 09:30:10 +0900 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.93 References: <3FBFE8C2.9000401@gentoo.org> <200311222335.hAMNZJEk083783@mxsf24.cluster1.charter.net> In-Reply-To: <200311222335.hAMNZJEk083783@mxsf24.cluster1.charter.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200311230930.10634.jasonbstubbs@mailandnews.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo internal structure, Will it ever end? X-Archives-Salt: eaef2b94-695d-4cb4-b235-1d726f6b5ca3 X-Archives-Hash: 8ba343689b9aa19f9dd18be642b81dbd On Sunday 23 November 2003 08:43, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > That's what most of the responces have pointed out - Gentoo's currrent > philosophy is to give us all choice to run what we need or desire. > Unfortunately some people felt we should not have that choice and wanted to > dump any package that did not meet their approval as free, open, whatever > out of portage and anyone who wants those packages had to go find them > himself. Not real tolerant. Gentoo's setup is fine for all and tolerates > each side - why change it? Because you are still looking at it from two sides. Stop proliferating this "us & them" theme so aggressively. My motivation for the change is that it addresses several needs. I'll illustrate: 1) The person who only wants to run FSF approved software can ensure that he does. 2) The person who only is able to legally run free-for-noncommercial-user software can ensure he does. 3) The inquisitive person (me) who wants to know all the licenses they are implicitly agreeing to can find out easily. There are many needs and issues to do with licensing other than the "us & them" that most cannot see beyond. Jason -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list