From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FgSTm-0001BQ-W2 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 17 May 2006 20:18:47 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k4HKIBwg004263; Wed, 17 May 2006 20:18:11 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k4HKDRfV000437 for ; Wed, 17 May 2006 20:13:27 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C43F4643BF for ; Wed, 17 May 2006 20:13:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 11115-02 for ; Wed, 17 May 2006 20:13:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from netswarm.net (netswarm.net [212.55.200.138]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AF4C64396 for ; Wed, 17 May 2006 20:13:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from netswarm.net (joker@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by netswarm.net (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k4HKDH9q009647 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Wed, 17 May 2006 22:13:17 +0200 Received: (from joker@localhost) by netswarm.net (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id k4HKDHZb009646 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 17 May 2006 22:13:17 +0200 Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 22:13:16 +0200 From: Christian Birchinger To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Paludis and Profiles Message-ID: <20060517201316.GA9559@netswarm.net> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <20060516161549.442b4d8a@localhost> <20060516191631.GA18817@superlupo.rechner> <20060517092319.GA2997@superlupo> <20060517173238.6d364603@snowdrop.home> <20060517181157.GA8220@superlupo.rechner> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060517181157.GA8220@superlupo.rechner> X-Accepted-File-Formats: ASCII, .ps, .rtf, .pdf - *NO* Micosoft Office files please X-Info: No HTML mails please. text/plain is the official email format Organization: Gentoo Linux User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.599 required=5.5 tests=[BAYES_00=-2.599] X-Spam-Score: -2.599 X-Spam-Level: X-Archives-Salt: fbde2a43-11c1-4ccc-975e-b031d6a672be X-Archives-Hash: cc6a53b79036537410a9479c536ad4a5 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 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list