From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JEMWz-0007O1-Lz for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:27:01 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9B6F2E0E32; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:26:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB880E0DF3 for ; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:26:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E980659CC for ; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:26:31 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.599 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.599 required=5.5 tests=[BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id PKc4lX4alRQB for ; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:26:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B950665A4D for ; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:26:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JEMWC-0002o3-4U for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:26:12 +0000 Received: from s01060016ec23af88.vc.shawcable.net ([70.79.204.76]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:26:12 +0000 Received: from hawat.thufir by s01060016ec23af88.vc.shawcable.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:26:12 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Thufir Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Daniel Robbins' come back ? Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:26:05 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <1200129071.4788842fc5816@imp.free.fr> <200801121231.42265.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: s01060016ec23af88.vc.shawcable.net User-Agent: Pan/0.131 (Ghosts: First Variation) Sender: news Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 6fcb47ce-0cf6-4665-bc11-7b0cb4b257a2 X-Archives-Hash: 6f08a56181adcfa3ec18bf0d18dd667f On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 01:12:09 +0000, James wrote: > 2. Keep licensing more in line with the BSD license for Gentoo centric > technology (thus encouraging entrepreneurship as defined by the > individual while simultaneously respecting GPLv2 and maintaining > compliance with GPLv2. GPLv3 is a poor idea, IMHO. GPLv3 can be made > easily available and leave GPLv3 compliance/responsibility up to the > individual. In fact software licensing and compliance should always be > up to the INDIVIDUAL, IMHO. Absolutely not -- For BSD licensing please use BSD. I see no reason why=20 everything Gentoo related can't be GPL v2 -- after all, the kernel=20 certainly is. I wouldn't want to see entrepreneurs take Gentoo, *improve* it, and then=20 not contribute those improvements back to Gentoo itself. That's what the= =20 GPL versus BSD is about, to my knowledge. That being said, it would be fantastic if the Gentoo Foundation found=20 ways to make money :) -Thufir --=20 gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list