From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@ciaranm.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] trial software in portage?
Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 12:34:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070514123404.71c11666@snowflake> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200705142126.17643.dragonheart@gentoo.org>
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On Mon, 14 May 2007 21:26:17 +1000
Daniel Black <dragonheart@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Is there a need for official policy here (and a bit of package
> removals)?
There's no official policy preventing commercial software from
being in the tree, so long as some conditions are met [1] -- although if
source code isn't available for a package, it's very hard to support it
properly.
Such packages probably shouldn't be included in the default accepted
licences, however.
[1]: http://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/tree/index.html
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Ciaran McCreesh
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-14 11:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-14 11:26 [gentoo-dev] trial software in portage? Daniel Black
2007-05-14 11:34 ` Ciaran McCreesh [this message]
2007-05-14 13:09 ` Raúl Porcel
2007-05-14 13:27 ` Timothy Redaelli
2007-05-14 14:08 ` Jakub Moc
[not found] ` <200705141647.10990.carlo@gentoo.org>
2007-05-14 14:56 ` Jakub Moc
2007-05-14 16:09 ` Dan Offord
2007-05-14 16:48 ` Carsten Lohrke
2007-05-14 16:10 ` Chris Gianelloni
2007-05-16 7:25 ` Greg KH
2007-05-16 7:36 ` Roy Marples
2007-05-16 8:43 ` Greg KH
2007-05-14 22:23 ` Mike Frysinger
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