From: "Stephen P. Becker" <geoman@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo's policy on sender id
Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2004 16:33:04 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <413B7800.8010001@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200409052024.28670.chrb@gentoo.org>
Chris Bainbridge wrote:
> 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.
>
Not that anything like this hasn't been done before (e.g. xorg-x11
replacing xfree soon).
Steve
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-05 14:00 [gentoo-dev] gentoo's policy on sender id John Davis
2004-09-05 16:26 ` Tom Gall
2004-09-05 19:24 ` Chris Bainbridge
2004-09-05 20:33 ` Stephen P. Becker [this message]
2004-09-05 21:33 ` Nicholas Jones
2004-09-06 10:29 ` Chris Bainbridge
2004-09-06 18:36 ` [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] " Nicholas Jones
2004-09-16 4:38 ` Rob Cakebread
2004-09-16 14:02 ` Malte S. Stretz
2004-09-05 23:44 ` Kurt Lieber
2004-09-16 23:25 ` Michiel de Bruijne
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