From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F2C0138A1A for ; Sat, 14 Feb 2015 20:54:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7C63AE0933; Sat, 14 Feb 2015 20:54:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DFA3BE0921 for ; Sat, 14 Feb 2015 20:54:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.3.7] (cpe-74-77-145-97.buffalo.res.rr.com [74.77.145.97]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: blueness) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 96684340764 for ; Sat, 14 Feb 2015 20:54:32 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <54DFB654.9050904@gentoo.org> Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 15:55:48 -0500 From: "Anthony G. Basile" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.3.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Project discussion list X-BeenThere: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Gentoo, GitHub, and the Social Contract References: <201502142148.30540.dilfridge@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <201502142148.30540.dilfridge@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: b1ce9b86-3f6c-4bee-b045-8c72005fd958 X-Archives-Hash: ae082dc91c932d0cf7e1a11205dd231f 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. -- Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened] E-Mail : blueness@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 1FED FAD9 D82C 52A5 3BAB DC79 9384 FA6E F52D 4BBA GnuPG ID : F52D4BBA