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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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  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-05 20:32 UTC|newest]

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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