From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22789 invoked from network); 5 Sep 2004 19:24:48 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 5 Sep 2004 19:24:48 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1C42d5-0001g8-Jq for arch-gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 05 Sep 2004 19:24:47 +0000 Received: (qmail 22588 invoked by uid 89); 5 Sep 2004 19:24:47 +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 5352 invoked from network); 5 Sep 2004 19:24:46 +0000 From: Chris Bainbridge To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2004 20:24:28 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: <1094392845.2540.14.camel@woot.uberdavis.com> In-Reply-To: <1094392845.2540.14.camel@woot.uberdavis.com> Organization: Gentoo Foundation MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200409052024.28670.chrb@gentoo.org> X-Edinburgh-Scanned: at haymarket.ed.ac.uk with MIMEDefang 2.33, Sophie 3.04rc1, Sophos Anti-Virus 3.85 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.33 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo's policy on sender id X-Archives-Salt: ee58db77-10fd-49fb-b35d-f8626bec0b5b X-Archives-Hash: 25f031a59dcaf6383226a8ed5bd9b5e0 On Sunday 05 September 2004 15:00, John Davis wrote: > Recent [1] announcements [2] from other large projects have prompted > this inquiry - should Gentoo adopt similar policies regarding Sender ID > and make a public statement or is it not worth our time? One of the things that I like about gentoo is the lack of deep politics. If someone is willing to maintain ebuild for packages that support sender id then why shouldn't gentoo host them? We already have stuff like vmware that is both patented and proprietary binary-only software. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list