From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27101 invoked from network); 5 Sep 2004 20:32:56 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 5 Sep 2004 20:32:56 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1C43h1-0002RV-T5 for arch-gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 05 Sep 2004 20:32:55 +0000 Received: (qmail 4267 invoked by uid 89); 5 Sep 2004 20:32:55 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 25461 invoked from network); 5 Sep 2004 20:32:54 +0000 Message-ID: <413B7800.8010001@gentoo.org> Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2004 16:33:04 -0400 From: "Stephen P. Becker" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.2 (Windows/20040707) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <1094392845.2540.14.camel@woot.uberdavis.com> <200409052024.28670.chrb@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200409052024.28670.chrb@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo's policy on sender id X-Archives-Salt: accedeab-f3f3-4cea-9cba-b65930d3021b X-Archives-Hash: 3cf6c8943c5edbd96800bdc276437732 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 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list