Re: [gentoo-dev] Paludis and Profiles

[Christian Birchinger <joker@gentoo.org>]

On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 08:11:57PM +0200, Wernfried Haas wrote:
> On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 06:32:38PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> 
> That's not the point as i wasn't talking about single developers but
> Gentoo as an organisation. Paludis is not in any way under Gentoo's
> control. If the paludis devs decide to change the license for paludis
> 1.0 to a commercial one, Gentoo would be unable do anything about it
> (except fork the last GPLed version). If the paludis devs decide to
> terminate all ricers with RTFM, Gentoo can't do anything about it. I
> guess the list could be continued with other examples.
> I'm not saying the paludis devs may do such a thing, but they could
> and Gentoo couldn't do anything about it.
> As long a project is within Gentoo, every developer does at least have
> some influence, be it by voting the council or whatsoever.
> 
> As for your long standing feature requests, this has nothing to do
> with the issue, unless you're trying to bash the portage team, which
> has nothing to do with this thread.

Then you remove the profile just like you would remove any piece
of software where the license is unacceptable.

The arguments are getting more and more "creative". It's almost
like asking what we will do when gcc turns into a commercial
product.
Please try to stay realistic and don't invent strange new
theoretical problems.

Christian
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