Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: joining the Software Freedom Conservancy

[Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@gentoo.org>]

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On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 18:03:50 -0700
Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 14:06 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> > Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> > > Well, we'd be the second distribution, as Debian uses the SFC.
> > > Also, realize that we've already gone through all of this with
> > > the SFC and wouldn't even be bringing it up as an option if the
> > > SFC hadn't already approved us.  They are aware of the state of
> > > our tree and that we do ship *ebuilds* for proprietary software.
> > > Remember that we don't distribute closed-source software, we
> > > distribute *ebuilds* for said software.
> > 
> > Are you sure we don't mirror any binary software or non-free
> > software? I would be shocked if our mirrors contained nothing
> > violating the open-source definition.
> 
> We have lots that violates "open source" by any definition, but we
> don't create it.

I completely agree with you. But the part quoted by Ryan Hill doesn't
say created. It says distributed. Perhaps we need to modify the wording
of their standard agreement to reflect how distributions work.

Thanks,
Donnie

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