Re: [gentoo-project] Gentoo, GitHub, and the Social Contract

["Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@gentoo.org>]

On 02/14/15 15:48, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> whenever the suggestion comes up to enable contributions to Gentoo via Github
> pull requests, we also encounter discussion of the Gentoo Social Contract.
>
> The two points that are seen as conflicting are
>
> * The software running Github is closed source, proprietary.
>
> * The Gentoo Social Contract states [1]:
> "Gentoo will never depend upon a piece of software or metadata unless it
> conforms to the GNU General Public License, the GNU Lesser General Public
> License, the Creative Commons - Attribution/Share Alike or some other license
> approved by the Open Source Initiative (OSI)."
>
> We need to resolve this discussion somehow, by formulating a clear policy.
> Which is why I'm putting it up here for discussion and will ask to add it to
> the next council meeting agenda.
>
> Many arguments have already been made. Feel free to summarize your points
> again in a reply to this e-mail.
>
> Cheers,
> Andreas
>
> [1] http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/contract.xml
>

I didn't know that was in our social contract, but I totally stand 
behind it.  I feel very uneasy about our increasing use/dependency on 
github.  I'd like to see the stuff we have on github migrate back to our 
infra.

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